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Beneath the Earth
A Literary Fiction Novel by John Boyne
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Dark Fiction,
- LGBTQ+ Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Short stories digging into the extremes of human nature
- A wide cast from farmers to hitmen, all flawed and fascinating
- Characters wrestling with secrets and the cost of protecting family
In this collection of twelve dark, unerring, and surprising short stories, John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality. The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us, the impossibility of shared loss, the lengths we will go to in order to protect our families, and the distance we will run to protect ourselves.
Drawing on a host of enthralling characters—a farmer, a cuckold, and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents, bad parents, writers and soldiers; a student, a rent boy, and a hitman—Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgement.
This, his first collection of short stories, is some of John Boyne's finest writing to date. It includes "Rest Day," which won the 2015 Writing.ie Short Story of the Year award in Ireland.
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