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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.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 425
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781564785381
  • Genres
  • fiction, ireland, unfinished
  • Release date
  • 2010