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On Canaan's side : a novel

Narrated by Lilly Bere, 'On Canaan's Side' opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Sligo, at the end of WWI and follows her life through into the new world of America.

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  • "Narrated by Lilly Bere, 'On Canaan's Side' opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Sligo, at the end of WWI and follows her life through into the new world of America."@en
  • "A magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America. Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as Lilly mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland, at the end of the First World War, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with both hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, Lilly's story unfolds as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, from the Great Depression to World War II and the Vietnam War, it is the heartbreaking story of a woman whose capability to love is enormous, and whose compassion, even for those who have wronged her, is astonishing."
  • "Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a mesmerizing new novel from the award-winning author of The Secret Scripture A first-person narrative of Lilly Bere's life, On Canaan's Side opens as the eighty-five-year-old Irish emigre mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. Lilly, the daughter of a Dublin policeman, revisits her eventful past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War. She continues her tale in America, where'far from her family'she first tastes the sweetness of love and the bitterness of betrayal. Spanning nearly seven decades, Sebastian Barry's extraordinary fifth novel explores memory, war, family ties, love, and loss, distilling the complexity and beauty of life into his haunting prose."@en
  • "From the bestselling Costa Prize-winning author of The Secret Scripture another heartbreaking novel spanning a lifetime."@en
  • "Told in the first person, Lilly Bere revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of the First World War, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with both hope and danger."@en
  • "Presents the tragic story of Lilly Bere, who flees Ireland for the United States under threat of death from the IRA and survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy, and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars."
  • "Presents the tragic story of Lilly Bere, who flees Ireland for the United States under threat of death from the IRA and survives heartache, a midlife pregnancy, and the challenges of the Great Depression and multiple wars."@en
  • "Told in the first person, this narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of World War I, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, her story unfolds as Lilly tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched."@en
  • "Told in the first person, this narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of World War I, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, her story unfolds as Lilly tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched."
  • "At once epic and intimate, Lilly's narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched."@en

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  • "Translations"@he
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Novels"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Bildungsroman"@he
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@he
  • "Roman irlandais de langue anglaise"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@he
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Erzählende Literatur"

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  • "In het beloofde land"
  • "On canaan's side : a novel"
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  • "Du côté de Canaan"
  • "Uzak diyarlarda"
  • "En el lado de Canaán"
  • "En el lado de Canaán"@es
  • "On Canaan's side : a novel"
  • "On Canaan's side : a novel"@en
  • "On canaan's side"@en
  • "Mein fernes, fremdes Land Roman"
  • "On canaan's side"
  • "Dage med Lilly"@da
  • "בארץ המובטחת"
  • "Mein fernes, fremdes Land"
  • "On Canaan's side : [a novel]"
  • "On Canaan's side = a novel"
  • "Ba-arets ha-muvṭaḥat"
  • "On Canaan·s side"
  • "Du côté de Canaan : roman"
  • "On canaan's side a novel"@en
  • "A la banda de Canaan"
  • "On Canaan's side a novel"
  • "On Canaan's Side"
  • "On Canaan's Side"@en
  • "On Canaan's side [a novel]"@en
  • "Mein fernes, fremdes Land : Roman"
  • "On Canaan's side"@en
  • "On Canaan's side"

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