Description
An eighty-five-year-old Irish émigré, Lilly Bere, begins her story in the aftermath of loss, mourning her grandson while looking back across nearly seven decades of love, family, and survival. As her memories unfold, the novel moves through 20th-century Ireland and America, tracing how war and displacement shape the lives of those she holds close. With Sebastian Barry’s lyrical, compassionate prose, Lilly’s voice turns private grief into a sweeping meditation on mortality, moral endurance, and the fragile ways we keep faith with one another. Part intimate family saga and part historical reckoning, this longlisted Booker Prize novel is a bittersweet, deeply human journey through what remains when everything else is taken.
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audiobook
Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published Sep 8, 2011
ISBN: 9781441793805
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Details
First Published
2011
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry.