That They May Face the Rising Sun

Widely considered to be the finest Irish writer of fiction at work today, John McGahern gives us a new novel that, with insight, humor, and deep sympathy, brings to vivid life the world and the people…

If you like book That They May Face the Rising Sun here is the list of books you may also like

Buy this book on Amazon

Similar books (20)

Heart, Be at Peace

‘I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise…’ Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two. In a small town in rural Ireland, …
Buy this book on Amazon
The Spinning Heart

In the aftermath of Ireland's financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chor…
Buy this book on Amazon
In the Forest

Buy this book on Amazon
Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex an…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Gathering

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Heart in Winter

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romantic tale of young lovers on the lam in 1890s Montana.

October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the…
Buy this book on Amazon
Going Home

Buy this book on Amazon
The Women Behind the Door

Buy this book on Amazon
The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)

Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they leave the safety of their convent school in search of life and love in the big city, they struggle to…
Buy this book on Amazon
Confessions

For fans of The Goldfinch and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, an ambitious and absorbing debut that follows three generations of women from New York to rural Ireland and back again.

New York City…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Boy from the Sea

'Compulsive reading. Compassionate, lyrical and full of devilment' Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses

1973. In a close-knit community on Ireland’s west coast, a baby is found abandoned on the beach. …
Buy this book on Amazon
I Want to Go Home But I’m Already There

Buy this book on Amazon
The Coast Road

Buy this book on Amazon
Our London Lives

Buy this book on Amazon
Under the Hawthorn Tree (Children of the Famine #1)

It is the late 1840s and the Great Famine has ravaged Ireland. The potatoes are black and rotten, and the people have nothing to eat. Eily, Michael and Peggy are alone in their cottage. Their parents …
Buy this book on Amazon
Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. She became a mother at 15 and ended up homeless. Five rackety years followe…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Ghosts of Rome (Rome Escape Line, #2)

In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the Rome Escape Line. When an unidentif…
Buy this book on Amazon
Prophet Song

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Sta…
Buy this book on Amazon
The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020

Buy this book on Amazon
My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican

September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannführer Paul Hauptmann rules with…
Buy this book on Amazon

That They May Face the Rising Sun

Similar books (20)

The Spinning Heart

The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)

My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)