Days Without End

Resumen del libro

Man Booker Longlist 2017 // Costa Novel Award Winner 2016
"Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on for ever, all rested and stopped in that moment. Hard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you never had that thought.I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. I am thinking of the days without end of my life. And it is not like that now...".After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, go on to fight in the Indian wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Their lives are further enriched and imperilled when a young Indian girl crosses their path, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges, if only they can survive.Moving from the plains of the West to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America's past, Days Without End is a novel never to be forgotten.

Biografía del autor

Sebastian Barry nació en Dublín en 1955. Es autor de ocho novelas, así como de numerosas obras de teatro. Fue el primer novelista en ganar dos veces el premio Costa al Libro del Año, por "Días sin final" y "La escritura secreta". Ha sido finalista en dos ocasiones del Premio Booker, por "Más y más lejos" y "La escritura secreta", y semifinalista por "Días sin final" y "En el lado de Canaán". Entre 2018 y 2021 fue reconocido con la prestigiosa distinción Laurate for Irish Fiction. Actualmente vive en el condado de Wicklow, Irlanda.<br> <br> También disponible de Sebastian Barry en AdN: "Días sin final" y "Mil lunas".