Pre-order

Conversation with the Sea

Name: Conversation with the Sea
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781399752121
Price: 27.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

By Hugo Hamilton

0.0 (0 reviews)

Brief Description

Shortlisted for the 2026 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 'I feel changed by this novel' — Donal Ryan 'An epic story' — Anne Enright 'Truly a book for our time' — Paul Lynch 'Near-perfect beauty' — Irish Times FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF... Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

$27⁹⁹

Pre-order

Releases 1^st September 2026 (Approx. Date) Pre-order "Conversation with the Sea" now to secure your copy from our first shipment

Found a better price? Request a price match

Conversation with the Sea

$27⁹⁹

Hugo Hamilton is a master at evoking placelessness, and in this hypnotic, passionate and urgent novel, he cuts a clean line to the truth of our mindless moment - truly a book for our time. - Paul Lynch

Description

Shortlisted for the 2026 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award

'I feel changed by this novel' — Donal Ryan

'An epic story' — Anne Enright

'Truly a book for our time' — Paul Lynch

'Near-perfect beauty' — Irish Times

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SPECKLED PEOPLE

'Deeply moving, utterly readable, bursting with life' — Frank McGuinness

'Hamilton leaves you with images that linger' — Sunday Independent

Fleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with a journal as his sole companion.

His inherited memory of the Nazi Holocaust comes face to face with the present when he meets a refugee from a recent warzone. As Lukas communes with the elements in this wild coastal place, he is forced into a confrontation with the past that will carry him to the edge of existence. Conversation with the Sea speaks with heart-rending tenderness to the present moment, as it explores truth, illusion and the deadly silencing of war in a captivating tale of love in a time of displacement.

'Unsettling and strangely absorbing' — Irish Independent

'A profound meditation ... precise, masterly' — Irish Examiner

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781399752121

Publisher: Hachette Books Ireland

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 21 May 2026

Country: Ireland

Imprint: Hachette Books Ireland

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 189g

Pages: 272

Collections

Fiction General Fiction Hugo Hamilton Literary Fiction Pre-order Books Pre-order General Fiction Pre-orders Pre-orders by Release Date

About the Author

Hugo Hamilton is the best-selling author of The Speckled People, a memoir of his German-Irish childhood in Dublin, growing up with his German mother and prohibited by his revolutionary Irish father from speaking English. It was translated into twenty languages and adapted for stage at the Gate Theatre. He has published ten novels including Dublin Palms and The Pages, a collection of short stories, and a second memoir The Sailor in the Wardrobe. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker. He has won numerous literary awards for his work including the Prix Femina in France and the Bundesverdienstkreuz order of merit, awarded by the German state for his exploration of cultural diversity. Hamilton is a member of Aosdana and lives in Dublin.

Also by Hugo Hamilton

View all

Conversation with the Sea

By Hugo Hamilton

Paperback

Sold Out