City of Bohane

Imagine the Coen Brothers resetting Miller’s Crossing in a dystopian west coast of Ireland city 40 years from now.

Got that in your head?

Now, imagine deeply rhythmical, almost A Clockwork Orange-esque manipulations of language, speech patterns and narration.

Hear it in your ears?

City of Bohane is the powerful debut novel from acclaimed short story writer, Kevin Barry, and features a visceral gang war between the Harnett Fancy gang and their leader’s nemesis, new in town. The book unfolds like a film with bursts of violence, surreal conversation and beautifully woven descriptions of a city lost in the clutches of vice and violence, and builds into a multi-stranded epic gang war in the great tradition of films Scorsese himself would be proud of.

Brutal, compelling and completely powerful stuff from a master of the written word.