On Canaan's Side

by Sebastian Barry

Book Overview

Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of Old God's Time

A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere's life, On Canaan's Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish ?migr? mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143122185
• ISBN13: 9780143122180
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher