Let the Great World Spin

Name: Let the Great World Spin
Author: Colum McCann

by Colum McCann

Novel interconnecting strangers through a tightrope walker above New York

Find on Amazon

About the author

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.

More by Colum McCann

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