by Kevin Barry · Canongate Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781782116202
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In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen - Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs - sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are expecting Maurice's estranged daughter (or is she?), Dilly, to either arrive on a boat coming from Tangier or depart on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals and serial exiles, rendered with the dark humor and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today.
Kevin Barry is an Irish writer. He is the author of three collections of short stories and four novels. City of Bohane (2011) was the winner of the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award, the world's most valuable annual literary fiction prize for books published in English. Beatlebone (2015) won the 2015 Goldsmiths Prize and his 2019 novel Night Boat to Tangier was longlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize. Barry is also an editor of Winter Papers, an arts and culture annual.
