Redemption Falls

A superb achievement * Irish Times *The words ‘A Masterpiece’ are too often bandied around in reviews, but they should be this novel’s subtitle * Sunday Tribune *A novel of vaulting ambition. O’Connor’s finest work to date * Sunday Independent *This book consolidates and deepens O’Connor’s stature as a major novelist * Irish Times *Redemption Falls is a major work of modern fiction from an astonishingly accomplished writer – Terry Eagleton * Guardian *Broad and ambitious…beautifully written…at the heart of O’Connor’s masterful epic lies a universal hope for something better * Observer *A superb novel… Brilliant work… A lively and exquisitely phrased epic – Thomas Keneally, Author of “Schindler’s Ark”A huge achievement, as deep as it is wide, this is a book like no other of these times – Nuala O’FaolainRedemption Falls is trauma incarnate, but its effect is both compassionate and luminous * TLS *Books of this quality demand to be reread to reveal more of their complexities and layers of meaning. Redemption Falls would reward this on the level of its rich textures of language alone * Sunday Herald *

Joseph O’Connor’s fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father’s House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.

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