What is it about Irish storytelling: that combination of poetry and pain, brutality and a wicked laugh or ten? All that lyrical toughness, and a sense of a history punctuated by a drumbeat of violence, is on display in Audrey Magee's novel, The Colony. A conversation with Kate Evans
Other books and writers mentioned in this conversation:
Emily Dickinson, works
Marcel Proust, works
James Joyce, works
Colette, works
Peig: The autobiography of Peig Sayers
William Butler Yeats, works