Colum McCann
Irish-American novelist whose Let the Great World Spin won the National Book Award and is a lyrical mosaic of New York in the 1970s. TransAtlantic weaves Irish and American history with formal ambition. He is one of Ireland's most internationally celebrated novelists.
Works
- Let the Great World SpinNovel interconnecting strangers through a tightrope walker above New York
- TransAtlanticNovel spanning a century linking an Irish aviator, journalist, and modern family
- ApeirogonNovel of grief and reconciliation between a Palestinian and Israeli father
- ZoliNovel tracing a Roma woman's life and love across twentieth-century Eastern Europe
- This Side of BrightnessNovel about an Irish teenager and an underground tunnel system in New York