As the Eason Book Club on the Pat Kenny Show leaves the Summer behind, the promise of a great read will help ease us into the Autumn. And what better way to do that than with John Boyne’s Beneath the Earth, the September choice.
A collection of a dozen dark and brooding short stories, Boyne, one of the great Irish writers today, asks difficult questions about modern life, examining it in all of its brilliance and brutality.
Taking snapshots of life from a diverse and intriguing roster of characters – including a farmer, a sexually-ambiguous teen, parents, students, sex workers, soldiers, writers, and a hitman – Boyne’s new collection, his first of short stories, promises to take the reader on a journey through other people’s lives, presenting them without prejudice or judgement.
Included in Beneath the Earth is Rest Day, which won the 2015 Writing.ie ‘Short Story of the Year’ award.
The Eason Book Club will take place on Thursday, September 24th. You can listen back to last month’s discussion of Patrick Smith’s In the Name of Love below.
