The Bee Sting

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2023

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<p><b>THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NOVEL FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING COMEDIC WRITERS</b></p><p><b>'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' <i>Guardian</i></b></p><p>____________</p><p>The Barnes family are in trouble.</p><p>Until recently they ran the biggest business in town, now they're teetering on the brink of bankruptcy - and that's just the start of their problems. Dickie and Imelda's marriage is hanging by a thread; straight-A student Cass is careening off the rails; PJ is hopelessly in debt to the school bully.</p><p>Meanwhile the ghosts of old mistakes are rising out of the past to meet them, but everyone's too wrapped up in the present to see the danger looming . . .</p><p>____________</p><p><b>'Generous, immersive, sharp-witted and devastating; the sort of novel that becomes a friend for life' <i>Financial Times</i></b></p><p>'Paul Murray [is] the undisputed reigning champion of epic Irish tragicomedy' <i>Spectator</i></p><p><b>'An instant classic' <i>Washington Post</i></b></p><p>'[An] astute, remorselessly funny novel' <i>Daily Mirror</i></p><p><b>'A wagyu steak of a novel . . . A classic in the mode of The Corrections' <i>The Times</i></b></p><p>____________</p><p><b>WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION 2023<br>WINNER OF THE SKY ARTS AWARD FOR LITERATURE 2024<br>WINNER OF AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023</b></p><p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023</b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780241984406

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 129 x 46 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd (UK)