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This is the story of the growing up of Martin Brennan, a troubled boy in troubled times, a boy who knows all the questions but none of the answers.

The extraordinary new story collection from one of Ireland's greatest writers and bestselling author of Mindwinter Break. Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist whose work - like that of John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien or Colm Tóibín - is deceptively simple on the surface, but carries a turbulent undertow. Everywhere, the dark currents of violence, persecution and regret pull at his subject matt...

Tinged with melancholy but rooted in resiliency, the exquisite stories of Bernard MacLaverty's Blank Pages display the perseverance of the human spirit. In "A Love Picture, " a middle-aged woman, already no stranger to loss, consults a World War II newsreel to determine the fate of her son. The harrowing but transcendent "The End of Days" imagines life in another pandemic as artist Egon Schiele and his wife, both stricken with the Spanish flu,...

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Bernard MacLaverty is a consummately gifted short-story writer and novelist whose work - like that of John McGahern, William Trevor, Edna O'Brien or Colm Tóibín - is deceptively simple on the surface, but carries a turbulent undertow. Everywhere, the dark currents of violence, persecution and regret pull at his subject matter: family love, the making of art, Catholicism, the Troubles and, latterly, ageing.Blank Pages is a collection of twelve ...

Aif einer Reise erkennen Stella und Gerry, dass sie unterschiedliche Vorstellungen vom Leben haben - und setzen dadurch ihre langjährige Beziehung aufs Spiel.

Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five collections of stories and four other novels, including Grace Notes which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. He has written versions of his fiction for other media ¿ radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.

Mit einem verlängerten Wochenende in Amsterdam möchten Stella und Gerry ihren Ruhestandsalltag in Glasgow unterbrechen. Die kleine Reise soll die beiden aufmuntern, sie wollen die Stadt erkunden und etwas für ihre Ehe tun. Sie lieben sich noch und ertragen gegenseitig ihre kleinen Fehler - aber in den vier Tagen treten tiefe Risse in ihrer Beziehung zutage. Und es wird klar, dass Stella einen ganz eigenen Plan verfolgt. Dieser Plan hängt mit e...

With Midwinter Break, a moving portrait of retired couple Gerry and Stella Gilmore's marriage in crisis, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. Through accurate, compassionate observation and effortlessly elegant writing, MacLaverty reveals the long-unspoken insecurities that exist between Gerry and Stella over their four-day holiday in Amsterdam, crafting a profound examination of human l...

Bernard MacLaverty lives in Glasgow. He has written five collections of stories and four other novels, including Grace Notes which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award. He has written versions of his fiction for other media ¿ radio and television plays, screenplays and libretti.

A retired couple, Gerry and Stella, travel to Amsterdam for a holiday to refresh the senses, do some sightseeing, and generally take stock of their lives. Their relationship seems easy, familiar-but over its course we discover the deep uncertainties between them.

Der junge katholische Arbeitersohn Cal McClasky wohnt in einer protestantischen Wohnsiedlung in Nordirland. Sein Umfeld beschränkt sich auf Bekannte aus der katholischen Separatistenbewegung IRA, für die er gelegentlich Aufträge ausführt. Die Faszination, die das Mädchen aus der Bücherei auf Cal ausübt, wird zur Besessenheit, als er ihren Namen, Marcella, hört. Wie würde sie reagieren, wenn sie erführe, wer er wirklich ist? Anstatt zu fliehen,...

On a promontory jutting out into the Atlantic wind stands the Home run by Brother Benedict, where boys are taught a little of God and a lot of fear. To Michael Lamb, one of the youngest brothers, the regime is without hope, and when he inherits a small legacy he defies his elders and runs away, taking with him a twelve-year-old boy, Owen Kane. Radio Eireann call it a kidnapping. For Michael the act is the beginning of Owen's salvation. Posing ...

Harte politische Realität ver­bindet sich in diesem Roman mit einer einfühlsam geschil­derten Liebesgeschichte. Der Titelheld wird hin- und her­gerissen zwischen der Loya­lität zur IRA und seinen Gewis­sensnöten.

A new book from Bernard MacLaverty is a cause for celebration, but Matters of Life and Death is more than that. It is the finest collection yet from a contemporary master of the form. Beginning with the sudden terror of a family caught up in shocking sectarian violence, and ending with the whiteout of an Iowa blizzard and the fear of losing your way very far from home, this collection is about bonds made and broken, secret and known. In the e...

This new addition to the Vintage list coincides with the Vintage publication of MacLaverty's Booker-shortlisted title, "Grace Notes. Cal" is the classic story set in Northern Ireland.