The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan

The Spinning Heart by Donal RyanWinner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012'Funny, moving and beautifully written' Edna O'Brien In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of

a home to keep them safe and love to keep them warm

But tonight is different

Weaving together cancer and consciousness

Xania's been determined to uncover her father's murderer

shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range

Tim Pat Coogan traces the stirring story of an institution which

Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria

libertine and libertarian reductions of love to instant pleasure and non-commitment bite the dust as Badiou invokes a supporting cast of thinkers from Plato to Lacan via Karl Marx to form a new narrative of romance

a tragedy that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed

As the police gather outside

The Irish state has commissioned investigations

With their blessing