![]() After school he visits Amsterdam, then later navigates 1980s New York at the height of the AIDS epidemic. Cyril is raised by quirky and inattentive adoptive parents a banker and a successful writer in Dublin. Splitting the novel into decade-long sections, Boyne explores Cyril's life in luscious detail. Thus begins the life of Cyril Avery, the boy whose life fills the remaining pages. At her tenement, Catherine witnesses an act of violence against her flatmates, the stress of which forces her into labor in the hall of her building. ![]() Unmarried, pregnant, and shamed by a priest in front of the entire congregation, she makes her way to Dublin, where, after finding a job at the Parliament of the Irish Republic, she rents a dingy apartment. ![]() The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.īoyne (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas) begins his enchanting, sprawling latest novel in 1945 as 16-year-old Catherine Goggin is cast from her home in Goleen, Ireland. In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he?īorn out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Awardįrom the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war IrelandĬyril Avery is not a real Avery - or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017 Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017 ![]()
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