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From the National Book Award-winning and bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin and TransAtlantic, comes a novella and three stories of immediate power and grace'A superbly crafted and deeply moving collection of fiction...underscores [McCann's] reputation as a contemporary master'Kirkus'Separate and together, these four works prove McCann a master with a poet's ear, a psychologist's understanding, and a humanitarian's conscience'Publishers Weekly_______________________A story in this collection has been longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG short story awardAs it was, it was like being set down in the best of poems, carried into a cold landscape, blindfolded, turned around, unblindfolded, forced, then, to invent new ways of seeing.It is a cold day in January when J. Mendelssohn wakes in his Upper East Side apartment. Old and frail, he is entirely reliant on the help of his paid carer, and as he waits for the heating to come on, the clacking of the pipes stirs memories of the past; of his childhood in Lithuania and Dublin, of his distinguished career as a judge, and of his late wife, Eileen. Later he leaves the house to meet his son Elliot for lunch, and when Eliot departs mi

Author

Colum McCann

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781408869864

Subjects

Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.01 / 5 (147 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14