Days Without End

Name: Days Without End
ISBN: 9780525427360

Sebastian Barry

2016·272 pages

Historical Fiction

coming of age fish out of water gender and sexuality gritty haunting hidden past

Booker Prize (2017) · Nominee

“A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant

“a master storyteller”
— Wall Street Journal

From Sebastian Barry, comes a powerful new novel of duty and family set against the American Indian and Civil Wars Thomas McNulty, aged barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine in Ireland, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas goes on to fight in the Indian Wars--against the Sioux and the Yurok--and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, the men find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in. Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days Without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten.

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Days Without End

Sebastian Barry

Booker Prize (2017) · Nominee

Year

2016

Pages

272

Historical Fiction

Praise

“A true leftfield wonder: Days Without End is a violent, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro, Booker Prize winning author of The Remains of the Day and The Buried Giant