On Canaan's Side

Name: On Canaan's Side
Author: Sebastian Barry
ISBN: 9780571274703

Sebastian Barry

awards won

score

On Canaan's Side

Sebastian Barry

awards won

score

See the full ranking

Narrated by Lilly Bere, On Canaan's Side opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Sligo, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love.

Buy this book at Amazon