September 28, 2012

Books

Off the Map

City of BohaneKevin BarryGraywolf Press, $25, 288 pp.

Celia Wren

When you open City of Bohane, you’re opening not just a novel, but a Fodor’s guide to a metropolis—an eerie, vibrant, murderous domain with its own grittily mythic lore and customs and its own apocalyptic Celtic slang. The Irish novelist Kevin Barry provides a story, too, of course—a saga of gang warfare and ruthless hoodlums vying for power and love—and he infuses it (...)


 

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