City of Bohane

The most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years * Irvine Welsh *Hilarious and unpredictable - and always brilliant * Roddy Doyle *Astonishing.This marks him out as a writer of great promise * Guardian *Beautiful, arresting, precise…a compelling creation * Irish Times *An electrifying masterpiece * Joseph O’Connor *City of Bohane is a book fizzing with energy, juiced up on the possibilities of language and replete with a plot * Glasgow Herald *Exuberant, spine-tinglingly atmospheric… This hyper-real world stuffed with overblown violence and all manner of cartoon-like grotesques is certainly a highly entertaining place to lose yourself in * Metro *Exhilarating …this novel confirms the arrival of a fresh and original voice in Irish literature… Hugely entertaining and original * Irish Sunday Times *The prose is sizzling, its molecules rocked by the force of collision…outrageously talented author…The power of the writing - of the writer’s imagination - is the siren call that hooks you…It stuns you with its daring…but it works * Scotsman *Addictive first novel…this slangy, plosive-packed prose is what makes the book a success…an expert manipulation of syntax keeps things zingy…it is a plus point that the dystopia bears no allegorical weight, thriving purely as an imaginary realm to be taken at face value * Sunday Times *

Kevin Barry’s story collection, There Are Little Kingdoms, won the Rooney Prize in 2007. His short fiction has appeared widely on both sides of the Atlantic, most recently in The New Yorker. City of Bohane is his first novel.

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