The critically acclaimed Irish contemporary classic in a beautiful new Scribner edition

Highly acclaimed Irish fiction about the developing relationship between two boys from Dublin around the time of the Easter Rising, which has drawn favourable comparisons with Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" and Vikram Seth's "A Suitable Boy".

‘A vivid picture of human freedom; of moving from fear of the world to acceptance of its fluid variety, while illuminating the nature of the imagination that makes it possible to do so’