A powerful novel from the bestselling author of DANCER.
Colum McCann's first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico. The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.
- ISBN10 1857995090
- ISBN13 9781857995091
- Publish Date 27 August 1996 (first published 12 June 1995)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 12 November 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson History
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 224
- Language English