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Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence.

"A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists writing in English today." —The Boston Globe.
  • FINALIST | 1996
    DUBLIN Literary Award
© Douglas Banville
JOHN BANVILLE, the author of seventeen novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He lives in Dublin. View titles by John Banville

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Finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

In this brilliantly haunting new novel, John Banville forges an unforgettable amalgam of enchantment and menace that suggests both The Tempest and his own acclaimed The Book of Evidence.

"A surreal and exquisitely lyrical new novel by one of the great stylists writing in English today." —The Boston Globe.

Awards

  • FINALIST | 1996
    DUBLIN Literary Award

Author

© Douglas Banville
JOHN BANVILLE, the author of seventeen novels, has been the recipient of the Man Booker Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He lives in Dublin. View titles by John Banville