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Beneath the Earth (Hardback)

John Boyne (author)

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Hardback 272 Pages / Published: 27/08/2015

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In this collection of twelve dark, unerring and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselves. Drawing on a host of enthralling characters - a farmer, a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy and a hitman - Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement. This, his first collection of short stories, is some of John Boyne's finest writing to date. It includes 'Rest Day' which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland. The collection has also been longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize 2016.

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780857523402
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 444 g
Dimensions: 223 x 138 x 28 mm

John Boyne

Irish author John Boyne is undoubtedly best-known for his powerful multi-award winning novel of The Holocaust, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Writing for adults and children alike, his other works include The Absolutist, A History of Loneliness, Noah Barleywater Runs Away and The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain.

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