![]() ![]() Ryan has produced a collection of short stories and five further novels including the present “The Queen of Dirt Island.”Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Reviews The Queen of Dirt Island About the Book The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love. Rejected for publication nearly 50 times-vetted, it would seem, by people who should have sought other employment-the brilliant little novel went on to be long-listed for the Booker prize and to win a number of awards including the Irish Book of the Decade. His first novel, “The Spinning Heart,” was forged from the voices of 21 people living through the aftermath of the collapse of Ireland’s property bubble. The Queen of Dirt Islan by Donal Ryan is a wonderful and introspective fiction that encompasses a multi-generation family that I really enjoyed. And it is talk-the fluid, vaguely surreal speechways of the Irish countryside-that carries Mr. But, as of old, they are still ruled by talk. No longer in thrall to a bleak, Jansenist version of the Church or sunk in Purgatorial privation, these small communities have, in the last few decades, been penetrated by mass entertainment, material consumption and loosened standards of conduct. ![]() Donal Ryan’s stories are set chiefly in the author’s native town of Nenagh, County Tipperary, and its rural surrounds. ![]()
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