Balcony of Europe
Aidan Higgins’s greatest novel has long been unavailable, and is here reissued in a new and revised edition. Balcony of Europe, which was shortlisted for the 1972 Booker Prize, tells the story of a complacent young Jewish wife from San Francisco and a middle-aged Irish painter who meet in a village on the coast of Spain, beginning an affair during the coldest European winter in two hundred years — all the while surrounded by a cast of characters as bizarre and hilarious as they are, finally, touching. Lyrical and humorous, heartbreaking and hopeful, Balcony of Europe is Aidan Higgins’s crowning achievement.
- Author
- Aidan Higgins
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 425
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781564785381
- Genres
- fiction, ireland, unfinished
- Release date
- 2010
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