Author: sebastianbarry

“A brave and moving novel [that] has a tender empathy with the natural world.” —Hermione Lee, The New York Review of BooksFrom the two-time Booker Prize finalist author of Days Without End comes a dazzling companion novel about memory and identity, set in Tennessee in the aftermath of the Civil WarWinona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional … Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in west Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive parents John Cole and Thomas McNulty, whose story Barry told in his acclaimed previous novel Days Without End, she…

A “timeless work” (Booklist starred review) from “a master storyteller” (The Wall Street Journal): Amid the hardship and horrors of the American Indian Wars and the Civil War, orphaned teenagers Thomas and John carve out a life together. Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize!

Trapped in an Irish psychiatric hospital, Roseanne McNulty is nearly 100 years old and secretly working on the tragic story of her life… A two-time Booker Prize finalist presents “an unforgettable portrait of mid-20th-century Ireland” (Booklist starred review).