Books by ›Colum McCan

The 3 best books by the amazing Colum McCann

19/12/2023

Being an Irish writer has an added debt to nostalgia and Colum McCann knows it. It is something like the peremptory feeling of everything. Sensation or perception of the fleeting as fate of the Irish soul. From Oscar Wilde to Samuel Beckett, an inescapable trend is repeated in Irish prose ...

Thirteen Ways of Looking, by Colum McCann

30/01/2020

A story fragmented into a thousand pieces. Those of the characters that cross the soul of the reader with their particular imprint, with their passage through the world in moments where their lives take finalist paths, bitter aspects, icy touches or states that border on despair. The most remarkable thing about this work ...