Old God's Time - Barry, Sebastian
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Retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home. For months he has barely seen a soul, but when two former colleagues arrive at his door with questions about an old case, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past. A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite as it seems.

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Produktbeschreibung
Retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home. For months he has barely seen a soul, but when two former colleagues arrive at his door with questions about an old case, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past. A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite as it seems.
Autorenporträt
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.
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'There is a kind of writing so rare and accomplished that it seems to erase the very nuts and bolts of its own construction. Reading it can produce an experience that feels close to miraculous ... I don't expect to read anything as moving for many years.' Guardian