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Birchwood

An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of The Sea.

I am therefore I think. So starts John Banville’s 1973 novel Birchwood, a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets — a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother — Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland, Birchwood is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 176
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-307-27912-5
  • EAN
  • 9780307279125
  • Genres
  • fiction, ireland, classics, novels, contemporary, literature
  • Release date
  • 2007