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Spies in Canaan
'One of the most powerful and probing novels so far this year' - Financial Times, Best summer reads of 2022
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‘It is seldom that one can say a book is perfect, but this is as close as I've seen in a very long time’ SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
‘A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption’ IRISH TIMES
Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if solitary. But one day there is a visitation: a mysterious car on the seafront, and a package delivered. From its contents, Michael understands that he has been commissioned to undertake a final journey.
As Michael makes his way deep into a distant desert – a strange and liminal landscape that lies between hell and redemption – he undertakes another journey, into long-suppressed memories: of Vietnam and the dying days of war, and to face a final accounting for what was done.
‘Another compact marvel … This is a meditative novel that, while investing heavily in a patient build-up of atmosphere, never forgets the need to put a foot on the gas’ DAILY MAIL
‘David Park's novels are always elegantly written’ INDEPENDENT
‘Unflinching, courageous, wise, alert to the thrill and sorrow of violence ... Adds to David Park's status as a superb novelist’ FRANK MCGUINNESS
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David Park's Spies in Canaan is praised for its masterful storytelling, elegant writing, and complex narrative structure. The novel explores themes of memory, guilt, and redemption through the story of a retired man reflecting on his past experiences during the Vietnam War. Reviews highlight its atmospheric style, gripping narrative, and the vivid recreation of both historical and emotional landscapes.
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ISBN: 9781526631947
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 May 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 150g
Pages: 208
About the Author
David Park has written nine novels and two collections of short stories. His novel Travelling in a Strange Land won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. His other books include The Light of Amsterdam, which was shortlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Prize and The Poets' Wives, which was selected as Belfast's Choice for One City One Book 2014. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award four times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland.
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