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A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland after a long time away, only to be greeted by a completely empty house. With no sign of his wife or child anywhere, it seems the world has forgotten that he even existed. The one exception is a persistent caller on the telephone, someone who seems to know everything about Nealon's life, his recent bother with the law and, more importantly, what ...

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After the collapse of his trial, Nealon returns to his family home in Ireland for the first time in years, only to be greeted by an empty home. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child. It seems the world has forgotten that he even existed, except for one mysterious caller.This Plague of Souls is a story for these fractured times and the story of a man who would let the world go to hell if he could keep his family together.

A man accused of political manipulation returns from a mysterious trial to his home in the west of Ireland only to find it deserted in this terse, brooding noir, named a most anticipated book of 2023 by The Guardian, The Irish Times, and The New Statesman.Someone out there is convinced Nealon has a plan, that he is masterminding a series of financial crimes in order to reshape the world. But Nealon has other things on his mind. Returning home ...

why these bleak thoughts today, the whole world in shadow, everything undercut and suspended in its own delirium Marcus Conway has come home to his kitchen in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, . Everything seems normal, yet he is haunted by the feeling that nothing is quite right. Poring obsessively over the details of his relationships, his world and his work as an engineer brings him closer to an understanding of how the things and people he loves have...

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Originally published in 1998, the first novel from the author of Booker-listed Solar Bones, Crowe's Requiem, is an eerie, fable-like work that confirmed Mike McCormack as a stunning new voice in world literature. McCormack's myth-tinged debut novel gives us the unforgettable Crowe and his endlessly curious and self-mythologizing stories. Crowe is born in the remote village of Furnace in the West of Ireland and raised by his grandfather, a man ...

Originally published in 1996, the first book from the author of Booker-listed Solar Bones, this New York Times Notable Book is a dark, uncanny collection of stunning breadth and audacity.This reissue of the author's celebrated 1997 debut collection is augmented with an afterword by the author, who reflects on his success and his work since. Prepare to enter a world where the infatuation with death, ruin and destruction is total. Set in locatio...

Marcus Conway hat sich bemüht, ein guter Mensch zu sein und doch vieles falsch gemacht, hat Erwartungen geweckt und enttäuscht, Träume gehegt und aufgegeben, fühlte sich zum Priester berufen und ist doch Ingenieur geworden. Er hat seine Frau betrogen und wiedergewonnen, er liebt seine erwachsenen Kinder, tut sich aber schwer damit zu akzeptieren, was sie so treiben. Nun steht er an einem grauen Novembertag in seiner Küche, und alles ist auf se...

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Ci sono istanti in cui la vita scorre tutta intera davanti agli occhi, come una visione. "Ossa di sole" cattura quella visione e la trasforma in romanzo. Gli occhi e la vita appartengono a Marcus Conway, un marito, un padre, un ingegnere che abita in un lembo rurale d'Irlanda. È il 2 novembre, il giorno dei morti. Seduto al tavolo della cucina, Marcus sente il rintocco di una campana, la campana dell'Angelus. Quel suono risveglia in lui la ver...

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Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Goldsmiths PrizeWinner of the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year An Irish Times Book Club Choice"With stylistic gusto, and in rare, spare, precise and poetic prose, Mike McCormack gets to the music of what is happening all around us. One of the best novels of the year." -Colum McCann, author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic Solar Bones is a masterwork that bui...

De westkust van Ierland, 2 november 2008. De maand van Allerzielen is aangebroken, vader, echtgenoot en civiel ingenieur Marcus Conway zit aan de keukentafel, wachtend op zijn gezin. Terwijl in de verte de Angelusklok luidt overdenkt hij zijn leven. Zijn gedachten dwalen af naar zijn vrouw en kinderen, zijn jeugd, zijn werk, en naar de financiële crisis die Ierland en de rest van de wereld teistert.Dag der zielen, geschreven in slechts één zin...

Mike McCormack's new novel Solar Bones is longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.About Notes from a ComaJJ O' Malley, adopted from a Romanian orphanage by a single father in the west of Ireland, grows up a permanent outsider, and yet he finds his place in the community. At least until his world is shaken by the death of his best friend, and he volunteers for the "Somnos Project, " an experimental program testing deep coma as a potential opti...

From the author of "Solar Bones", winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and 2016 Irish Book of the Year, this is McCormack's celebrated debut short story collection.

Narrated in a single sentence, it is the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize 2016 and the 2016 Irish Book of the Year. Ambitious and other-worldy, this profound elegy is a story of love, chaos and loss as it reflects on All Souls' Day - a day in Ireland where it is thought the dead may return. Doing just that, Michael Conway returns to his kitchen table and attempts to piece together the events which took him away before bringing him back home again.

In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head and heart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal.