The Banyan Tree: A Novel

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Arcade Publishing, 2000 - 374 pages
Covering the eighty-plus years in the life of Minnie O'Brien, a woman bound to take her place in Irish literature next to Joyce's Molly Bloom, The Banyan Tree is a saga of rural Ireland spanning the twentieth century. In richly layered prose, Nolan lovingly details the life and times of a spirited woman who struggles to keep the five fields left to her by her husband for the day when her prodigal younger son, who is wandering the world, will surely return to claim them. Colorful, feisty, filled with love and humor, The Banyan Tree is truly a virtuoso debut novel.
 

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À propos de l'auteur (2000)

Author Christopher Nolan was born in Ireland on September 6, 1965. Due to being deprived of oxygen at birth, he suffered from cerebral palsy and could only move his head and eyes. He used a pointer attached to his head to write his books. At the age of 15, he published his first book Dam-Burst of Dreams (1981). His other novels are The Banyan Tree (1999) and Under the Eye of the Clock, which won the Whitbread Book of the Year in 1988. He also won the Medal of Excellence from the United Nation's Society of Writers, The Sunday Independent-Irish Life Arts Award for Literature and Ireland's Person of the Year Award in 1988. He died due to oxygen deprivation caused by ingestion of food into his airways on February 20, 2009 at the age of 43.

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TitreThe Banyan Tree: A Novel
AuteurChristopher Nolan
ÉditeurArcade Publishing, 2000
ISBN1559705116, 9781559705110
Longueur374 pages
  
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