Le monde est recouvert de neige.
Les transports sont interrompus.
Tom doit s'aventurer dans un paysage métamorphosé et hostile pour aller chercher son fils, malade et coincé dans une résidence étudiante.
Mais lors de ce trajet solitaire en voiture, de Belfast à Sunderland, Tom se retrouve à faire un autre voyage, sans carte ni guide, et retrace chaque route d'une histoire familiale habitée de souvenirs et embrumée de regrets.
Écrit dans une prose épurée et cristalline par l'une des voix les plus importantes de la littérature irlandaise contemporaine, Voyage en territoire inconnu est une oeuvre au dépouillement exquis et à la grâce transfiguratrice. Un roman de pères et de fils, de chagrin, de mémoire, de famille et d'amour ; sur les gouffres qui nous séparent de ceux que l'on aime, et les mauvais tournants que l'on prend en allant les retrouver.
WINNER OF THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'I loved this delicate, beautifully written novella about fathers and sons' David Nicholls 'One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle 'Wrings the heart' Bernard MacLaverty 'A mighty book' Frank McGuinness 'Extraordinary, raw and moving a chronicle of pain and powerlessness as could be written' Lisa McInerney AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The world is shrouded in snow. With transport ground to a halt, Tom must venture out into a transformed and treacherous landscape to collect his son, sick and stranded in student lodgings. But on this solitary drive from Belfast to Sunderland, Tom will be drawn into another journey, one without map or guide, and is forced to chart pathways of family history haunted by memory and clouded in regret.
Travelling in a Strange Land is a work of exquisite loss and transformative grace. It is a novel about fathers and sons, grief, memory, family and love; about the gulfs that lie between us and those we love, and the wrong turns that we take on our way to find them.
A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption from the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award ''It is time to call David Park what he is - a very great writer'' FRANK McGUINESS ''David Park is a one of Ireland''s great novelists'' RODDY DOYLE ''A writer''s writer of great skill'' JOHN BOYNE ''If you want to know what great writing is, it''s right here'' NIALL McMONAGLE Michael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Midwest. His retirement is peaceful, if solitary: looking out on the wide waters of the Atlantic from the coast of Ireland. But one day there is a visitation: a mysterious car on the seafront, and a package delivered. From its contents, Michael understands that he has been commissioned to undertake a final journey.
As Michael makes his way deep into a distant desert - a strange and liminal landscape that lies between hell and redemption - he undertakes another journey, into long-suppressed memories: of Vietnam and the dying days of war, and the lost woman who has haunted him for decades.
Taut, atmospheric and moving, Spies in Canaan is a powerful elegy to the pain of first love, the guilt of old age, and the grace of atonement.>
It is December in Belfast, Christmas is approaching and three sets of people are about to make their way to Amsterdam. Alan, a university art teacher, goes on a pilgrimage to the city of his youth with troubled teenage son Jack; middle-aged couple Marion and Richard take a break from running their garden centre to celebrate Marion's birthday; and Karen, a single mother struggling to make ends meet, joins her daughter's hen party. As these people brush against each other in the squares, museums and parks of Amsterdam, their lives are transfigured as they encounter the complexities of love in a city that challenges what has gone before.
La peinture figurative du jeune californien Brendan Monroe met en scène une nature inquiétante et mélancolique, trame organique d'une issue que l'on pressent funeste. Ses oeuvres foisonnantes viennent souvent s'échouer aux frontières de l'expressionnisme abstrait et laissent deviner une réflexion très subtile sur la peinture. En France, il est représenté par la galerie parisienne L. J.
