Heart, Be At Peace

Resumen del libro

Some things can send a heart spinning others will crack it in two...In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding.But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch Told in twenty-one voices, Heart, be at Peace is a heartfelt, lyrical novel that can be read independently, or as a companion to Donal Ryan's multi-award-winning novel, The Spinning Heart, voted The Irish Book of the Decade'.

Biografía del autor

Donal Ryan (Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, 1976) es una de las voces más originales de la narrativa irlandesa del siglo XXI. Debutó en 2012 con la novela Corazón giratorio (Sajalín, 2019), publicada en más de quince países y galardonada, entre otros, con el premio Guardian al mejor debut y el premio literario de la Unión Europea. Nominado en dos ocasiones al premio Booker y ganador del premio Jean Monnet de literatura europea, Ryan es autor de siete novelas y un libro de relatos. En 2014 abandonó su trabajo como funcionario para dedicarse por completo a la literatura y a dar clases de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Limerick.