On the Other Side of Canaan

About This Novel

"Beyond Canaan" is a novel by contemporary Irish writer Sebastian Barry. This work won the 2012 Walter Scott Literary Award and was nominated for the 2011 Booker Prize. The protagonist of the story, eighty-nine-year-old Lily Brie, decided to end her life in a "quiet way". She spent her whole life running and avoiding, but fate always strangled her neck in the most unexpected way, taking away her loved ones, destroying their bodies, tearing apart their souls, leaving no one behind. The scarred generations of Irish people are silently accountable to history, burdened with painful ethical paradoxes.

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