Night steam in Tangier

Gangster tragicomedy, full of gloomy humor and lyricism.
October 23, 2018. The sleepy port of Alheesiras, the roaring waters of Gibraltar, the rainy Spanish Andalusia. Two men of about fifty years, slightly beaten by life, give out rare passengers and meetings. Our friends are called Maurice
Hirn (tall and foul) and Charlie Redmond (full and stocky), and they are Irish gangsters, who once built a huge drug imperial, but lost it for years later. They found themselves in Alkheisiras by chance, rumors conveyed joyful news to Maurice: it was today, October 23, on the steamer following in Tangier or back, his daughter Dilly, who disappeared three years ago. Charlie helps his friend - he distributes leaflets with her image and ties conversations with strangers to help them find the girl.
The events of the past are strung on endless conversations, like beads. Even if the reader does not understand anything in the Irish, Dragfix and the Spanish -Marorkan ports, he will follow with interest the conversations of Maurice and Charlie, their achievements and failures and will certainly sympathize with Dilie, the daughter of Maurice, who disappeared without a trace three years ago.
film producer Michael Fassbender redeemed the rights to film adaptation of this book.

What, in our opinion, this book
A novel about people who do not justify their actions, but recognize mistakes and try to fix them.
A tragicomic story about love, betrayal, family and life, about rethinking the past, about true values, full of gloomy humor and lyricism.

From the translator Sergey Karpov
Two Irish bandits spend the night in a shit of the Spanish port, the Balagury and recalling the past times. Damn them, they just hate this city - but they can’t leave it. What else do fans of the masterpiece need to lie to the bottom in Bruges" Martin McDona and the general genre of criminal comedies from the British islands?
Of course, one comedy on the verge of Beckett is not limited. Behind the facade of dashing pirates people are hiding - heroes are worried about the past, suffer due to loss and their impulsiveness. Yes, in the past they came across a curse from Irish legends and forests and Spanish drug dealers, but now it is much more important that one of them is waiting for her daughter in the port, who escaped from home, and does not know whether he can again get closer to her. And from the colloquial style and words from the Corcian dialect, the heroes and the world of the novel become only more lively and convex.
The dynamic, fluid plot of Kevin Barry pours like jazz improvisation, from an intimate comedy to melancholy memories, signs from the rapids of rate of fire dialogs into the stream of consciousness. It seems that the novel is written in a single breath - and should be read in the same way.

Prizes
Long list of Buker Prize 2019
bestseller No. 1 according to The Irish Times
In the top ten books of 2019 according to The New York Times
A number of publications - The New York Times, Lit Hub, The Millions, The Paris Review and NPR - recognized the novel as the best book of 2019

For which we love this book
Irony, cinematography, an unusual plot.
Author - a premium writer. Modern Becket, shifted to our sick reality.
The problems of heroes will be close to many.

For whom this book
For lovers of high -quality modern prose.
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