Кевин Барри - автор 7 книг. Из известных произведений можно выделить: Ночной паром в Танжер, Beatlebone, Місто Боуган. Все книги можно читать онлайн и бесплатно скачивать на нашем портале.
В комнате ожидания паромного терминала в испанском порту Альхесирас маются двое престарелых ирландцев – Морис и Чарли, давние партнеры-контрабандисты. Они ждут прибытия судна из Танжера. Или судна в Танжер? Они ищут дочь Чарли, сбежавшую из Ирландии после смерти матери. Чарли ждет встречи и примирения, ему неспокойно на душе. Это ночное бдение в духе Сэмюэла Беккета –...
'He will spend three days alone on his island. That is all that he asks . . . John is so many miles from love now and home. This is the story of his strangest trip.' John owns a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland. Maybe it is there that he can at last outrun the shadows of his past. The tale of a wild journey into the world and a wild journey within, Beatlebone is a mystery ...
2053 рік, постапокаліптична Західна Ірландія. Логан Гартнетт, харизматичний лідер банди Стиляг, править містом Боуган уже не перший десяток років — і збирається правити ще бодай стільки ж. Але постають певні проблеми: його давній суперник повертається до міста після довгого вигнання, у злиденних панельках на півночі починає вимахувати кулаками банда-конкурент, та й власні підлеглі снують інтриги. ...
From the author of City of Bohane, a debut collection that “could easily have been titled ‘These Are Little Masterpieces’” (The Irish Times) This award-winning story collection by Kevin Barry summons all the laughter, darkness, and intensity of contemporary Irish life. A pair of fast girls court trouble as they cool their heels on a slow night in a small town. Lonesome hill walkers take to the ...
An award-winning collection from the author of City of Bohane, which was hailed by Pete Hamill as “full of marvels” (The New York Times Book Review) * Short-listed for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award * Winner of the Sunday Times Short Story Award * One of last year's most critically acclaimed books in the UK * A Guernica Best Book of the Year * A Library Journal "Best Indie Fiction of 2013...
In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two aging Irishmen -- Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs -- sit at night, none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are expecting Maurice's estranged daughter, Dilly, to either arrive on a boat coming from Tangier o...
The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees. Infested by vice and split along triballines, there are still some posh parts of town but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin’ that the city really lives. For years, Bohane has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather...