Wild Quiet
A memory—eating, closet—dwelling beast escapes its confines; a Somali girl in a Donegal school is tougher than she seems; under a jasmine tree in Andalucía a woman waits for her stolen son; at the edge of a city, two brothers step unwittingly into a game that turns deadly. The scope and diversity of these stories knows no bounds, sitting somewhere between the real and imaginary.

Wild Quiet contains a world viewed from unexpected angles, where the ordinary is rendered extraordinary and the extraordinary sublime. These are stories woven with compassion and humour, announcing the arrival of a fresh new voice in Irish literature.

In this astonishingly innovative and bold collection, Roisín O’Donnell examines the hurts and triumphs of being human, and the wild, quiet moments that approach something like grace.
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Wild Quiet
A memory—eating, closet—dwelling beast escapes its confines; a Somali girl in a Donegal school is tougher than she seems; under a jasmine tree in Andalucía a woman waits for her stolen son; at the edge of a city, two brothers step unwittingly into a game that turns deadly. The scope and diversity of these stories knows no bounds, sitting somewhere between the real and imaginary.

Wild Quiet contains a world viewed from unexpected angles, where the ordinary is rendered extraordinary and the extraordinary sublime. These are stories woven with compassion and humour, announcing the arrival of a fresh new voice in Irish literature.

In this astonishingly innovative and bold collection, Roisín O’Donnell examines the hurts and triumphs of being human, and the wild, quiet moments that approach something like grace.
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Wild Quiet

Wild Quiet

by Roisín O'Donnell
Wild Quiet

Wild Quiet

by Roisín O'Donnell

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Overview

A memory—eating, closet—dwelling beast escapes its confines; a Somali girl in a Donegal school is tougher than she seems; under a jasmine tree in Andalucía a woman waits for her stolen son; at the edge of a city, two brothers step unwittingly into a game that turns deadly. The scope and diversity of these stories knows no bounds, sitting somewhere between the real and imaginary.

Wild Quiet contains a world viewed from unexpected angles, where the ordinary is rendered extraordinary and the extraordinary sublime. These are stories woven with compassion and humour, announcing the arrival of a fresh new voice in Irish literature.

In this astonishingly innovative and bold collection, Roisín O’Donnell examines the hurts and triumphs of being human, and the wild, quiet moments that approach something like grace.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781848405004
Publisher: New Island Books
Publication date: 07/13/2016
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 5.30(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Ebenezer's Memories 1

How to be a Billionaire 22

Infinite Landscapes 36

Titanium Heart 51

Under the Jasmine Tree 57

On Cosmology 76

How to Learn Irish in Seventeen Steps 85

Kamikaze Love 107

Wild Quiet 124

When Time Stretches 139

Death and the Architect 159

Crushed 166

Acknowledgements 183

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