Books like The Sea
An ageing Irishman reflects on a childhood summer by the sea and the drowning that ended it, unable to separate memory from invention.
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The Gathering
Veronica Hegarty, one of twelve surviving children, brings her brother Liam's body home from England after he drowns himself, and the family gathers in Dublin for the wake.
Clear Light of Day
Bim, who has stayed in the family's crumbling house in Old Delhi to look after her disabled brother, is visited by her sister Tara, and they remember the summer of Partition.
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
Jean Daragane, an ageing writer living alone in Paris, gets a call from a stranger who has found his lost address book, and is drawn back towards a childhood he has forgotten.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
The Changeling
Kogito Choko, an ageing novelist, listens night after night to the tapes left by his brother-in-law, a famous film director who has jumped from a building, and tries to understand why.
To the Lighthouse
A family vacations at a Scottish lighthouse, and the passage of time between two visits reveals everything about love, art, loss, and the impossibility of reaching the things we yearn for.
The Pilot's Wife
Kathryn Lyons is woken before dawn in her New Hampshire farmhouse by the news that her husband Jack's plane has gone down off the coast of Ireland, and as investigators suggest he caused the crash, she begins to find she did not know the man she married.
Charming Billy
In a Bronx bar after the funeral of Billy Lynch, an Irish-American alcoholic, his family and friends trade stories about his life and the lost love that shaped it.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.
Fugitive Pieces
Jakob Beer, a seven-year-old Jewish boy hiding in the mud of a Polish town after his family is murdered, is found by Athos, a Greek geologist, who smuggles him to the island of Zakynthos.
Out Stealing Horses
A sixty-seven-year-old widower moves to a remote cabin in eastern Norway and meets a neighbour who pulls him back to the summer of 1948, when he lost his best friend and his father.
In Search of Lost Time
A man dips a madeleine in tea and the taste unlocks his childhood, beginning seven volumes of memory, love, jealousy, society and art that redefined what a novel could do.