City of Bohane

i do not know if you will like this book. usually, i am pretty good with the readers' advisory thing - i have this innate sense that automatically provides me with a list of names of people i think would appreciate the book, even if i didn't like it myself. call it a gift. but this one - i am genuine......more

Before reading the City of Bohane (2011) I had read Kevin Barry’s more recent Night Boat to Tangier, and That Old Country Music, both of which I loved. Or rather, I listened to them, because while you should usually read physical books that pay as much attention to language as Barry does, but he mak......more

Kevin Barry is a genius. He is doing with his life and his gift exactly what he was put on this earth to do and continues the long and great line of Irish writers. His debut novel City of Bohane is an original and remarkable work of inventiveness. Set in the fictional and futuristic city of Bohane, s......more

City of Bohane, Kevin Barry's debut novel, won the prestigious international Impac prize in 2013, one of the my favourite literary prizes as one of the few that treats translated fiction on a par with English language originals ([URL not allowed]). And his 2nd novel, Beatlebon......more

I have to say I am glad I chose to listen to this one. There's a lot of made-up vocabulary, mixed in with Irish slang anyway, and I could get a sense of what was going on from the author's inflections. It reminded me of reading Clockwork Orange when I was in high school, just trying to define things......more