Sinopsis
SHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024
Exceptional ... The imaginative storytelling and fine prose of Remembrance Sunday puts McKeon in the big leaguesIrish Times
A supreme storytellerSunday Times
If you enjoy Colum McCanns work, this novel is for youIrish Independent
Impressive ... A poignant, delicately composed novel that doesnt stint on the wreckage of violenceDaily Mail
Beautifully writtenSunday Independent
From the acclaimed author of All That is Solid Melts into Air
Chinatown, New York. After a chance encounter with an old friend, Simon Hanlon, an Irish architect, experiences a seizure, his first in almost thirty years. Soon, they come to him daily.
As he awaits a brain operation, Simon turns his mind back to his childhood on a farm near the Irish border. At fifteen, he was present when an IRA bomb exploded at the Remembrance Sunday parade in Enniskillen. It was in the following weeks that his seizures first began. Now, he is compelled to seek out the bomber from the remnants of his past, and to ask himself the question: why do we harm one another?
Remembrance Sunday is a moving and unforgettable novel about love, empathy and the ways in which history imprints itself upon our hearts and minds.
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Deeply felt and delicate, Remembrance Sunday is a timely evocation of the havoc the Troubles wreaked, not just on the street, but on the soulCLAIRE KILROY
Beautifully wrought, startlingly perceptive, stealthily gripping . . . It moves masterfully between the forensic and the lyrical, the meditative and the dramatic, the personal and the politicalKEVIN POWER
McKeon animates a story out of the Norths recent history with much skill and empathy. Complicating the commonplace, attempting to make sense of the senseless, the novel is an impressive and moving act of imagination and remembranceNICK LAIRD
A stunning achievement. I was completely gripped by it and awed at the sublime skill and beauty of its execution. Darragh has created a work of art of immediate relevance and enduring importanceDONAL RYAN
