Audiobooks by Donal Ryan

"Brought to you by Penguin. ‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two. In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding. But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch… A stunning, lyrical novel told in twenty-one voices, Heart, be at Peace can be read independently, or as a companion to Donal Ryan’s multi-award-winning novel, The Spinning Heart, voted ‘The Irish Book of the Decade’. PRAISE FOR DONAL RYAN: 'Beautiful, compassionate ... Donal Ryan at his inimitable best.' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'One of the finest novelists writing today... a haunting, exquisite masterpiece.' RACHEL JOYCE 'The prose drips like honey off a spoon' SUNDAY TIMES ©2024 Donal Ryan (P)2024 Penguin Audio"

Donal Ryan (Author), Anne Marie Ryan, Ciaran O'brien, Donal Ryan, Eva Bartley, Gerry Howard, Killian Coyle, Roy Mcmillan, Toni O'rourke (Narrator)

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The Spinning Heart

"Brought to you by Penguin. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award 2013 Shortlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Literary Award 2014 Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013 Winner of Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2012 In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds. The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation. Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is witty, dark and sweetly poignant. 'Funny, moving and beautifully written' EDNA O'BRIEN 'Filled with light and shade, love and tragedy ... if it was a song you could sing it' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Donal Ryan is the real deal ... a brilliantly realised, utterly resonant state-of-the-nation landscape' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'I can't imagine a more original, more perceptive or more passionate work than this. Outstanding' JOHN BOYNE 'It's furious, it's moving, it's darkly funny, it punches you right in the gut' NEW YORK TIMES © Donal Ryan 2012 (P) Penguin Audio 2024"

Donal Ryan (Author), Anne Marie Ryan, Ciaran O'brien, Donal Ryan, Eva Bartley, Gerry Howard, Killian Coyle, Roy Mcmillan, Toni O'rourke (Narrator)

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The Queen of Dirt Island

"Brought to you by Penguin. From the multi-award-winning author of the number one bestseller, STRANGE FLOWERS, a searing, jubilant story about four generations of women and fierce love. The Aylward women of Nenagh, Tipperary, are mad about each other, but you wouldn't always think it. You'd have to know them to know - in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised voices and dramatic scenes - that their house is a place of peace, filled with love, a refuge from the sadness and cruelty of the world. Their story begins at an end and ends at a beginning. It involves wives and widows, gunrunners and gougers, sinners and saints. It's a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties, of isolation and togetherness, of transgression, forgiveness, desire, and love. About all the things family can be and all the things it sometimes isn't. From the prize-winning author of Strange Flowers and The Spinning Heart, The Queen of Dirt Island is an uplifting celebration of fierce, loyal love and the powerful stories that bind generations together. 'Donal Ryan is giving us characters that we haven't seen in Irish literature before' RODDY DOYLE 'Ryan's work has set a benchmark to which other writers will aspire' JOHN BOYNE 'I think you have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE © Donal Ryan 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022"

Donal Ryan (Author), Emma Lowe (Narrator)

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[Hebrew] - ים שקט ושפל גלים

"שלושה גברים. כל אחד מהם מחפש משהו שאבד לו. אצל פארוק, המשפחה עומדת מעל לכול. הוא רוצה להגן על אשתו ועל בתו כמיטב יכולתו מהמלחמה ומהשנאה המשסעות את סוריה, מולדתו. אם יבחרו להישאר בה, יאבדו את חירותם ומצבם יידרדר; אם יבחרו לברוח, יאבדו את ביתם לטובת חלום מופשט על מפלט בארץ רחוקה, מעבר לים אכזר. למפי לא מצליח להתרכז. יותר מדי דברים קורים בחייו בעיירה הקטנה באירלנד. הוא יוצא עם בחורה עירונית בשביל הכיף, אבל היא לא קלואי. וכשקלואי עזבה, היא לקחה איתה את ליבו. אמו מסתירה ממנו סוד. סבא שלו מטריף אותו עם בדיחות גסות ועוקצניות. ונוסף על כל זה, הוא צריך לשמש נהג אוטובוס בבית האבות, תפקיד שבכלל לא היה אמור למלא. העורמה תמיד זרמה בעורקיו של ג'ון: הוא מתמרן אנשים כדי ליהנות, כדי להתעשר או סתם כדי להכעיס. אך זה מעולם לא הספיק לו. רוח הרפאים של אחיו האהוב והאכזבה המרה של אביו הטילו צל על כל חייו. אבל עכשיו חייו אוזלים ממנו והוא לא בטוח שאלוהים מאזין לתחינתו למחילה. שלושה גברים מחפשים בית. חייהם יובילו אותם לנקודת מפגש, מקום שבו כאבם, דרכם וגורלם יישזרו יחד . דונאל ריאן הוא סופר אירי מוערך ואהוב. ספריו זכו בפרס ספר הביכורים של הגרדיאן, פרס האיחוד האירופי לספרות ופרס ספר השנה בפרסי הספרות האיריים. 'ים שקט ושפל גלים' היה מועמד ברשימה הקצרה לפרס מאן בוקר וברשימה הארוכה לפרס קוסטה לשנת 2018. דונאל מתגורר בלימריק עם אשתו אן-מארי ועם שני ילדיהם ומלמד כתיבה יוצרת באוניברסיטה המקומית. זה ספרו הראשון המתורגם לעברית."

Donal Ryan (Author), אורי דרור (Narrator)

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Strange Flowers

"In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family’s life forever. Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today. 'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving' David Nicholls 'With each new novel Donal Ryan's ink seems to sink deeper into the page. In Strange Flowers he gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul 'Exquisite … you will love the quiet world of Paddy & Kit Gladney and all it is their daughter Moll brings to their door. Beautiful' Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said"

Donal Ryan (Author), Donna Anita Nikolaisen (Narrator)

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The Thing About December

"Brought to you by Penguin. ‘He heard Daddy one time saying he was a grand quiet boy to Mother when he thought Johnsey couldn’t hear them talking. Mother must have been giving out about him being a gom and Daddy was defending him. He heard the fondness in Daddy’s voice. But you’d have fondness for an auld eejit of a crossbred pup that should have been drowned at birth.’ While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Village bullies and scheming land-grabbers stand in his way, no matter where he turns. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey’s life, The Thing About December breathes with his grief, bewilderment, humour and agonizing self-doubt. This is a heart-twisting tale of a lonely man struggling to make sense of a world moving faster than he is. Donal Ryan’s award-winning debut, The Spinning Heart, garnered unprecedented acclaim, and The Thing About December confirms his status as one of the best writers of his generation. © Donal Ryan 2013 (P) Penguin Audio 2020"

Donal Ryan (Author), Donal Ryan (Narrator)

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From a Low and Quiet Sea: Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018

"Random House presents the audiobook edition of From a Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan, read by Stephen Hogan, Gerry O'Brien and Ramon Tikaram. Farouk’s country has been torn apart by war. Lampy’s heart has been laid waste by Chloe. John’s past torments him as he nears his end. The refugee. The dreamer. The penitent. From war-torn Syria to small-town Ireland, three men, scarred by all they have loved and lost, are searching for some version of home. Each is drawn towards a powerful reckoning, one that will bring them together in the most unexpected of ways. 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLE"

Donal Ryan (Author), Gerry O'Brien, Ramon Tikaram, Stephen Hogan (Narrator)

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Audiobooks by Donal Ryan

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