by Paul Lynch · Albin Michel · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782226392169
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«Grace» is the historical novel by Paul Lynch, published by Albin Michel in paperback (480 pages, in French).
Ireland, 1845. In the midst of the Great Famine, Grace disguises herself as a man to find work and survive. Her little brother secretly joins her, and together they cross the country from Donegal to Limerick through a devastated landscape, where hunger drives people to terrible extremes for a piece of bread. The journey is an odyssey of formation and lyricism.
The novel was originally published in 2017; the French edition is from 2019, translated by Marina Boraso. It won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and was shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize.
Suitable for readers of historical and coming-of-age fiction, and for book clubs interested in nineteenth-century Ireland during the Great Famine.
Paul Lynch is an Irish novelist known for his poetic, lyrical style and exploration of complex themes. He has published five novels and has won several awards, including the 2018 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award and the 2023 Booker Prize, for Prophet Song.
