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Longlisted for the Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of Old God's Time A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere’s life, On Canaan’s Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in America, where—far from her family—she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal. Spanning nearly seven decades, Sebastian Barry’s extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, war, family ties, love, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose. Review “Sebastian Barry’s achievement, enhanced by his latest novel, On Canaan’s Side , may be too great to be defined by the Booker or any other literary prize. Barry, the greatest prose writer in Irish letters—which by definition makes him the greatest writer of prose in the English language...No other novelist now writing can convey as Barry does the way in which unrighted wrongs continue to reverberate down through the ages, creating new vers

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Author

Sebastian Barry

Publisher

Faber & Faber

Language

EN

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.82 / 5 (55 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14