Lynch returns with haunting South American rural reverie
There are echoes of Gabriel García Márquez, not just in the setting, but also in the manner in which Lynch manages to slowly and teasingly reveal some of the harsh realities of living in a narco-controlled area
Fiction: Beyond The Sea, By Paul Lynch, Oneworld, €16.45
Paul Lynch has followed up his award-winning novel Grace with another lyrical, fantastical and almost hallucinatory tale, this time set far from home shores. Where Grace narrated a hellish trip through Famine-era Ireland, Beyond The Sea is set just off the coast of an unnamed South American village, where two men get stranded in the Pacific Ocean following a heavy storm that leaves their ...
