Review
'A genuine literary talent, with a poet's gift for apposite, wry observation, dialogue and character ... a masterful, ironic book of loss and bitter optimism, money and poverty, the impossible divide between city and country' -- Guardian '[An] elegiac tale of loss and dispossession ... Wall is too astringent a storyteller to fob his readers off with a feel-good ending. But he is also sufficiently poetic in his use of language to infuse the struggles of his hero with deep human feeling.' -- Sunday Telegraph 'A raw and uncompromising but tender portrait of Ireland in the here and now ... In THIS IS THE COUNTRY he has redefined a female icon, one you might have thought you knew - Mother Ireland. She is not pretty but she is utterly authentic.' -- Irish Independent 'A compelling picture of a land of lost souls.' -- Times Literary Supplement 'A terrific novel ... THIS IS THE COUNTRY stands out because it stares directly at the dark side of contemporary Ireland without looking away, or even blinking. In the parlance of the Irish, it's a mint piece of work. It deserves a place on the shelf alongside William Trevor and Edna O'Brien.' -- David Means
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'A genuine literary talent, with a poet's gift for apposite, wry observation, dialogue and character'
--Ce texte provient de la
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édition.
