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Colum McCann’s seven novels and three collections of short stories have been published in over forty languages and received some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards and honours, including the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin in 2009. His novel TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013, and his most recent novel, Apeirogon, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is an international bestseller on four continents. colummccann.com
McCann may follow Coppola upriver and Conrad to the heart of darkness but the concerns of his novel are contemporary and urgent and utterly compelling. This is an ambitious novel, note perfect, wild but controlled, with its deft apparatus mapping our most mysterious 21st century malaise – the great loneliness of the connected world -- KEVIN BARRY Explores the fragility of our hyper-connected world ... Brilliant, appealing, hard-edged, punchy, poetic and mysterious * THE TIMES * Dazzling ... a plot that uncoils with page-turning urgency ... McCann’s prose has a power and lyrical propulsion that can be quite dazzling … an unexpected denouement that uncoils with page-turning urgency * ESQUIRE * A Graham Greene-ish thriller … Dark, moving and very entertaining -- Alex Preston * OBSERVER, Fiction to look out for in 2025 * A thrilling tale of a man all at sea * FINANCIAL TIMES, What to read in 2025 * Masterfully woven and delicately layered, and told with such calm wisdom that it will take your breath away. Engrossing, deeply moving and consistently honest, Colum McCann is one of our greatest storytellers -- ELIF SHAFAK Electrifying, propulsive ... a masterful exploration of the elemental forces at work just below the surface of all our lives -- COLIN WALSH With echoes of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, Twist by Colum McCann, his follow-up to the acclaimed Apeirogon, follows two Irishmen off Africa as vital underwater cables are repaired, and sabotaged * IRISH TIMES, Fiction to look out for in 2025 * Colum McCann gives us a powerfully realist novel of men at sea, literally, emotionally, and metaphorically. It speaks of the brokenness of our time, the successful and unsuccessful attempts at repairs, and the vulnerability of our world. The spirit of Joseph Conrad hovers over the text, but here the heart of darkness lies at the bottom of the ocean -- SALMAN RUSHDIE Praise for Colum McCann: McCann writes with an amazing abundance of humanity -- ELIZABETH STROUT McCann is an empathy engine * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * A giant amongst us - fearless, huge-hearted, a poet with every living breathe -- PETER CAREY An audacious and wonderfully skilled writer -- JOSEPH O'CONNOR A great writer prepared to take risks * DAILY MAIL * Colum McCann is a very gifted, charming writer; in full, rhapsodic-onrush mode, he is hard to resist * GUARDIAN * McCann writes with a ferocious eloquence and a masterly sense of narrative * SPECTATOR * Simply stunning … Part thriller and part exploration of narrative and truth. (There are deliberate echoes of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness) … The 21st-century human seems a very broken thing in Twist. And McCann’s novel, penned by a brilliant storyteller at the height of his powers, has a disconcerting ability to help you simultaneously find and lose your bearings * independent.co.uk *
