by John Boyne · Corgi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552778435
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«A History of Loneliness» is the literary fiction novel by John Boyne, published by Corgi in paperback (480 pages, in English).
Odran Yates enters Clonliffe seminary in 1972 convinced of his vocation. Forty years later, the scandals shaking the Irish Catholic Church unsettle his faith and force him to revisit his past. The novel explores guilt, silent complicity, loyalty, and the price of faith in an institution marked by concealment.
The Corgi edition was published in March 2015; the novel is written in English and has 480 pages.
For readers of literary fiction interested in recent Irish history and novels about the Catholic Church.
John Boyne is an Irish novelist and writer. He is the author of sixteen novels for adults, six novels for younger readers, two novellas, and one collection of short stories. Boyne's historical novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) received critical acclaim and was adapted into a 2008 drama film of the same name. As of 2022, the book has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been translated into over 58 languages, making it one of the best-selling books of all time. A sequel, titled All the Broken Places, was published in 2022.
