The Black Snow: A Novel

A family in Ireland struggles to rebuild their lives after a tragedy—and hidden secrets—consumes them in this novel from a Booker Prize–winning author.

In Donegal in the spring of 1945, a farmhand runs into a burning barn and does not come out alive. The farm's owner, Barnabas Kane, can only look on as his friend dies and all forty-three of his cattle are destroyed in the blaze. Following the disaster, the bull-headed and proudly self-sufficient Barnabas is forced to reach out to the communi...