Books by Donal Ryan

Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012'Funny, moving and beautifully written' Edna O'Brien In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town.

I 1973 tager 20-årige Moll Gladny morgenbussen væk fra landsbyen. Fem år forløber uden en lyd. Forældrene Paddy og Kit forsøger at leve med det uforståelige tab. Snakken går i det lille samfund, men også den forstummer. Så en morgen dukker Moll ganske uforklarligt op igen.”Donal Ryan har en særlig sans for forsoningsprocessen, for de umærkelige skift i menneskets sind, der går fra forseelser og fortvivlelse til en form for forløsning” har Wall Street Journal skrevet om dette unge, men allerede velkonsoliderede, irske forfatterskab. En præcis karakterstik for også Ryans nyeste roman, Sælsomme vækster. Sælsomme vækster er en blidt vedholdende fortalt roman om en lillebitte familie på de store saftiggrønne jorder i Tipperary County (hvor også Ryans andre romaner udspiller sig; og den skarpsindige læser vil muligvis spotte en enkelt genganger i alle bøgerne). Et county, der i sig selv er et lillebitte sted i en stor verden i forandring.Donal Ryan er en af de helt store, unge irske forfattere; han har modtaget bl.a. The Guardian First Book Award, EUs Litteraturpris og The Irish Book Awards, været shortlistet til the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award og to gange longlistet til Man Booker prisen. På dansk er endvidere udkommet romanerne Rust; Som røg fra vinden og Fra et smult og stille hav samt novellesamlingen Et sving mod solen.

WINNER of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving' David Nicholls'A triumph ... the best novel I've read so far this year' Joseph O'Connor________________In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.________________'Here is love as a weapon and a balm ... A gorgeously wrought book' Guardian 'Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written' Independent'All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages' Kathleen MacMahon'Exquisite ... Beautiful' Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said'Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' R n n Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul

***LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018******SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2018***'Beautiful and affecting' David Nicholls 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been torn apart by war.

'Martin Toppy is the son of a famous Traveller and the father of my unborn child. She's trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming - larger by the day - while the past won't let her go. What she did to Breedie Flynn all those years ago still haunts her. It's a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does.

At the heart of these stories, crucially, is how people are drawn to each other and cling on to love, often in desperate circumstances. In haunting and often startling prose, Donal Ryan has captured the brutal beauty of the human heart in all its hopes and failings.

While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey's life, this book is about his grief, bewilderment, humour and agonizing self-doubt.

Vinder af THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD - BOOK OF THE YEAR og THE IRISH BOOK AWARD.Det økonomiske kollaps og finanskrisen forårsager farlige spændinger mellem indbyggerne i en lille by. Grådighed graver grøfter mellem tidligere venner. Arbejdsløshed, sorte penge, et mord og en barne­bortførelse sender chokbølger gennem det lille samfund.ANMELDERNE SKREV"Det er en fabelagtig bog. Lille af sideomfang men stor i klogskab (...) Det er en klog bog, der efterlader dig svimmel og med meget at tænke over."- Nordjyske Stiftstidende"Donal Ryans kakofoni af stemmer - 21 i alt - er blevet sammenlignet med andre garvede, irske prosaforfattere, men også med selveste den walisiske lyriks konge, Dylan Thomas, som i Under mælkeskoven mestrer noget af det samme. Og man forstår det. Kunsten er på én gang at fortælle en samlet historie og separere stemmerne. Det lykkes flot. Ikke uden grund har Ryan vundet både The Guardians debutpris og The Irish Book Award."- Weekendavisen"En gang imellem kommer en roman, som har den nødvendige tænding og forfriskende nye greb om tingene til at kickstarte socialrealismen på ny. At dømme efter de priser, Donal Ryan har modtaget, har hans bog i Irland haft en rolle, som kan sammenlignes med Jan Sonnergaards ' Radiator' herhjemme."- 4 hjerter, Politiken