Donal Ryan Collection (5 Volumes in Total)
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This set contains five works by Donal Ryan: "All We Should Know" + "From the Silent Shallow Sea" + "The Whirling Heart" + "December Chronicle" + "The Slanting Sun". 1. "Everything We Should Know": Martin Toby was the son of a famous homeless man and the father of my unborn child. He is seventeen and I am thirty-three. The novel uses Melody's emotions as clues and the fetus as the starting point - the former becomes the amniotic fluid of the latter, and the uterus is like a ghost, summoning and gathering all conflicts and feelings to achieve spiritual rumination, input, and redemption. 2. "From the Quiet Shallow Sea": Farouk, for him family is everything. He tried his best to protect his wife and daughter from the ravages of war and hatred, but ultimately lost his home and took refuge on the other side of the ocean. Lampe, a distraught man who has lived in small-town Ireland for too long. John has a strong desire to control, but his life is overshadowed by the ghost of his brother and the pain of his father, and his life is coming to an end. The fate of the three people gradually became intertwined, composing a sad and touching story. 3. "Spinning Hearts": Bobby, Josie, Lily, Vasya, Leo Ting... 21 Hearts are all spinning. 21 People, with different experiences and identities, struggle to tell their own truths, and each true and intertwined story gradually unfolds. Ryan uses a unique narrative voice to show the complexity of human nature and express the thoughts of a generation with incredible perception. 4. "December Chronicle": This is what happened in December: it happened in a flash. If you close your eyes, it's over. After his parents died, Johns inherited the family farm, but he was unable to run it on his own. Village bullies and scheming land grabbers stand in his path... After suffering a brutal beating, a female patient who was hospitalized with him enters his life, but Johns is still alone, and he is trying to keep up with a world that moves faster than him... 5. "The Sun Slants": Our existence is just an accident caused by the encounter of the body, and the body comes from small things. The encounter, small things originate from an accidental sunbeam... A thief was taken in by an old man, but his brother was beaten; in the war-torn Middle East, a priest taught young people to play hockey; the driver who caused the accident developed a subtle relationship with the victim's mother; a group of friends with a rift in their relationship took revenge on the sexual predator... 20 Stories, written to express loneliness and displacement, surging with passion and desire.
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