By John Banville

An early classic from the Man Booker-prize winning author of The Sea. I am therefore I think. So starts John Banville’s 1973 novel Birchwood, a novel that centers around Gabriel Godkin and his return to his dilapidated family estate. After years away, Gabriel returns to a house filled with memories and despair. Delving deep into family secrets—a cold father, a tortured mother, an insane grandmother—Gabriel also recalls his first encounters with love and loss. At once a novel of a family, of isolation, and of a blighted Ireland, Birchwood is a remarkable and complex story about the end of innocence for one boy and his country, told in the brilliantly styled prose of one of our most essential writers

Published Date: 08/04/2007 Format: PaperBack ISBN: 978-0-307-27912-5 Publisher: - Rating: Retail price: Pound £ 12.96 (Rs. 1,618.83) Our price: Rs. 950.00 You Save: Rs. 668.83 Reviews: 0 reivew(s).

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