On Canaan's Side

Name: On Canaan's Side
Author: Sebastian Barry

by Sebastian Barry

An elderly woman recalls her long life across three continents and historical epochs

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Sebastian Barry

Irish novelist and playwright whose fiction explores the forgotten victims of Irish history with lyrical intensity. A Long Long Way and The Secret Scripture were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He won the Costa Novel Award twice.

More by Sebastian Barry

A Long Long WayIrish soldier fights in World War One and faces moral reckoning
The Secret ScriptureA woman writes her life story as a psychiatric hospital patient in Ireland
Days Without EndHistorical tragedy of Irish solders and lovers during the American Civil War
A Thousand MoonsAn Irish woman dreams of her lover's face preserved in the landscape