Bøger af Mike McCormack

The follow-up to Booker-listed literary sensation Solar Bones is a terse metaphysical thriller, named a most anticipated book of the year by The Guardian, The Irish Times, and The New Statesman. Nealon returns from prison to his house in the West of Ireland to find it empty. No heat or light, no sign of his wife or child. It is as if the world has forgotten or erased him. Then he starts getting calls from a man who claims to know what's happened to his family-a man who'll tell Nealon all he needs to know in return for a single meeting. In a hotel lobby, in the shadow of an unfolding terrorist attack, Nealon and the man embark on a conversation shot through with secrets and evasions, a verbal game of cat and mouse that leaps from Nealon's past and childhood to the motives driving a series of international crimes launched against "a world so wretched it can only be redeemed by an act of revenge." McCormack's existential noir is a terse and brooding exploration of the connections between rural Ireland and the globalized cruelties of the twenty­first century. It is also an incisive portrait of a young and struggling family, and a ruthless interrogation of what we owe to those nearest to us, and to the world at large.

why these bleak thoughts today, the whole world in shadow, everything undercut and suspended in its own deliriumMarcus Conway has come home to his kitchen in Louisburgh, Co. Mayo,. Everything seems normal, yet he is haunted by the feeling that nothing is quite right. Poring obsessively over the details of his relationships, his world and his work as an engineer brings him closer to an understanding of how the things and people he loves have come together, and how they have and must inevitably come apart.Winner of the International Dublin Literary Award 2018, Solar Bones is Mike McCormack's multi-award-winning elegy to the merits of an ordinary life. This adaptation was first presented at the Kilkenny Arts Festival, and subsequently at the Abbey Theatre. The production won Best Actor for Stanley Townsend and Best Director for Lynne Parker at the Irish Times Theatre Awards.

Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker PrizeWinnerof the Goldsmiths PrizeWinner of theBord Gis Energy Irish Book Awards Novel of the YearAnIrish TimesBook Club Choice"e;With stylistic gusto, and in rare, spare, precise and poetic prose, Mike McCormack gets to the music of what is happening all around us. One of the best novels of the year."e;Colum McCann, author ofLet the Great World SpinandTransAtlanticSolar Bones is a masterwork that builds its own style and language one broken line at a time; the result is a visionary accounting of the now.A vital, tender, death-haunted work by one of Ireland's most important contemporary writers, Solar Bones is a celebration of the unexpected beauty of life and of language, and our inescapable nearness to our last end. It is All Souls Day, and the spirit of Marcus Conway sits at his kitchen table and remembers. In flowing, relentless prose, Conway recalls his life in rural Ireland: as a boy and man, father, husband, citizen. His ruminations move from childhood memories of his father's deftness with machines to his own work as a civil engineer, from transformations in the local economy to the tidal wave of global financial collapse. Conway's thoughts go still further, outward to the vast systems of time and history that hold us all. He stares down through the ';vortex of his being,' surveying all the linked circumstances that combined to bring him into this single moment, and he makes us feel, if only for an instant, all the terror and gratitude that existence inspires.

Det er Alle Sjæles Dag. Dagen, hvor de døde siges at kunne vende tilbage. Marcus Conway, en midaldrene ingeniør, har været langt undervejs for endelig at stå i sit hjem og gruble over sit livs rytmer og ritualer. Med ingeniørens blik spekulerer han over, hvordan broer, banker, økonomier, familier,og ægteskaber er konstrueret, og hvordan de kan bryde sammen. Mike McCormack portrætterer orden og kaos, kærlighed og tab i én mands liv, fastholdt i en time, i én lang, flydende sætning. Solstål er blevet kåret til BGE Irish Book of the Year 2016, og vinder af The Goldsmiths Prize 2016, samt indstillet til The Man Booker Prize 2017 og International DUBLIN Literary Award 2018. ”betagende” – The Chicago Review of books “En Joyceansk roman om sygdom, lidelse og arbejde” – The Economist ”Intet andet end en stor præstation” – London Review of Books “Den højeste kvalitet er altid sjælden og kommer ofte uventet: Vi forventer ikke nødvendigvis altid mesterværker fra selv de store. Mike McCormack’s Solstål er ekstraordinær: en ekstraordinær roman af en forfatter, der endnu ikke er berømt, men bestemt til at blive roste af enhver, der mener, at romanen ikke er død.” – The Guardian “forfriskende original novel” – Literary Review “visionær intensitet” – The Irish Times ”Mike McCormacks Solstål er en vidunderlig original, og klar moderne bog” – The New York Times “lyrisk mestervæk” – The Sydney Morning Herald “Der er en grund til, at man siger, at det er en kliche, når den bedste fiktion får dig til at se verden på en ny måde. Men det er netop, hvad Solstål gør.” – The Times “en dyb metafysisk udforskning af selve livet: groteske, bizarre og hidtil uset, men også helt igennem troværdig” – Literary Review“McCormack har altid været blandt de mest eventyrlystne og ambitiøse irske forfattere” – Colm Tóibin “genopstandelsen af den irsk modernisme” – The New Statesman “Proust omdannet af Flann O’Brien” – Literary Review ”ekstraordinær bog” – The Economist “lyrisk mestervæk” – The Sydney Morning Herald

The celebrated debut short story collection from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year