From a Low and Quiet Sea
A Novel
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARD
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
"Beautiful and affecting" -- David Nicholls, author of One Day
A moving novel of three men, each searching for something they have lost, from the award-winning and Man Booker nominated author Donal Ryan.
For Farouk, family is all. He has protected his wife and daughter as best he can from the war and hatred that has torn Syria apart. If they stay, they will lose their freedom, will become lesser persons. If they flee, they will lose all they have known of home, for some intangible dream of refuge in some faraway land across the merciless sea.
Lampy is distracted; he has too much going on in his small town life in Ireland.…