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“The boy from the sea” by Garrett Car is the choice of June 2025 for the Irish Book Club.
Every month, we will choose a new Irish book or a great book from an Irish author and celebrate the amazing ability of Irish to tell a good story for the Irish Book Club.
It is described as “very funny and incredibly moving,” “boy from the sea” is Garrett Car’s novel for the first time. Doning Citizen
You can see Garrett Carr offers “boy from the sea” here:
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Summary “Boy from the Sea”
Ireland 1973, a baby was found on the beach of a coherent hunting village. The fisherman, Ambrose Bonnar, displays the child to his family: his son, Diklan, his wife, Christine, and the highest lane, Christine’s sister and old age. The town’s residents are still fascinated by the child, who is now called Brendan, and is growing into a strange but attractive young man.
The “boy from the sea” tells the story of a family and a community, all of which were thrown into the arrival of Brendan. Family wealth rises and decreases over the years – as the city does, because nothing happens to one family here that does not happen to them all – such as the fierce global economy forces and the expression of modern commercial fish hunting in their way of life. In the village, Brendan and Diklan vary greatly and are often at odds; Outside the sea, Ambrose worries his children, but he cannot tear his attention from the brutal work that keeps his family standing on his feet. While the world around them continues to change, the mystery of the origin of one of the boy is withdrawn to an amazing and stormy fate.
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“Boy from the sea”
“In the difficulty of the life of these characters, it is a feeling of real contact that gives the book a kind of lightness … This is a surprising, giving and warm novel about a real place and real people”-The Guardian
“Noticeable, funny and influential. I didn’t want to end.
“From the bed, the observed, different and thoughtful, a book that collects momentum like a Western, the consequences of the road to late calm, left the reader with an amazing impression of the storm that just exploded” – The Irish Times
“A expansionary, intimate, funny and warm story, while it is psychological sharp. It carries a shipment full of feeling under the floors. The result is overwhelming in the best way”
“The boy from the sea has the rare quality that I often find it looking for in a novel – the intimate relationship between the breadth of life. Garrett Car is accurate and accurate in his writing – the hidden skilled of real literal disappointment. This book is completely alive, and leads to the unification of the reader” – Ronan Hort, author of “Ghov Mountain”.
“Car choir is a magical voice and a humor at times … It paints the conflicts of marriage, progress, sadness and financial anxiety” – Financial Times
“A warm novel, full of worn wisdom and lightness. It is joy” – Sunday Times
About Garrett Car
Garrett Car, born in Ko Dunigl, is studying creative writing at the Simos Henny Center, University of Queens Belfast, a frequent contributor to the Guardian and Irish newspaper. His fictional book, “The Ruling of the Earth: The Borders of Ireland” was the BBC 4 broadcast book of the week. “The boy from the sea” is his first novel.
(*Summary, reviews, and autobiography information from the random penguin home.)