A classic novel of family isolation and a blighted Ireland from the Booker Prizewinning author ofThe Sea depictsthe end of innocence for aboyand his country
Once the big house on an Irish estate Birchwood has turned into a dilapidated family manor filled with memories and despair One disaster succeeds another until young Gabriel Godkin runs away to join a traveling circus and look for his longlost twin sister Soon he discovers that famine and unrest stalk the countryside and Ireland is ruined too
Told with lyrical proseJohn BanvillesBirchwoodis the elegiac story of the aristocratic decline of an eccentric family riddled with dark secrets
John Banville is one of the greatest masters of the English language The Scotsman
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