{"product_id":"9781529371628","title":"Topographia Hibernica : Acclaimed stories from the bestselling Irish author","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Boatclub, Blindboy \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 16 November 2023 by Hodder \u0026amp; Stoughton (Coronet Books) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e144 x 223 x 27 | 404g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the best books I have ever read ... I can't recommend him or it enough.' JOHNNY MARR'Powered by immense, perverse energy out of the Limerick idiom, the collection generates a singular music that is memorable, unsettling and humane' Guardian'Eerie, dark and twisted . . . Blindboy's passion for Irish nature, mythology and folklore lends a spiritual profundity' BuzzYou don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The view in my mirror was furry and violent. I was driving blind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDriving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat; jackdaws pecking brains out through the roof of a confessional box; cat piss and astronauts. This is the world not as you see it, but as it is, twisted from the maverick mind of Blindboyboatclub.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are stories of the strange unsettlings in the souls of men caught in between the past and the possible; stories of heart-blinding rage and disquieting compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its title from a twelfth-century English manuscript of the same name, which dehumanised the people and culture of Ireland to facilitate domination, Topographia Hibernica is a collection that unravels the knotted threads of humanity, nature and colonisation from a contemporary Irish perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalled 'one of the most gifted writers of his generation' by the Irish Times, Blindboyboatclub is the essential voice for the Irish condition in the twenty-first century. Topographia Hibernica is his unmissable new short-story collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HUNTS BOOKSHOP LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44420686282992,"sku":"9781529371628","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0514\/8635\/9739\/files\/9781529371628_89959d01-8a09-4e7a-a286-511276535c1a.jpg?v=1713537972","url":"https:\/\/huntsbookshop.live\/products\/9781529371628","provider":"Hunt's Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}