Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan´s Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly´s narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.
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Sebastian Barry nació en Dublín en 1955. Sus novelas y obras de teatro han recibido numerosos galardones, entre los que destacan el Kerry Irish Fiction Prize, el Irish Book Awards Best Novel, el Independent Booksellers Prize y el James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Tres de sus novelas han sido finalistas del Premio Man Booker: " A Long Long Way " (2005), " La escritura secreta " (2008) y " Días sin final " (2016), estas dos últimas también ganadoras del Premio Costa. " Días sin final " también ha recibido además el premio Walter Scott de Ficción Histórica 2017. Sebastian Barry vive en Wicklow (Irlanda).