by Colum McCann · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408869840
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«Thirteen Ways of Looking» is Colum McCann's collection of short stories, published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The centrepiece is a novella about a retired judge in New York whom a winter's day brings memories of his past and his wife; a meal with his son ends in an incident that two detectives try to reconstruct from recordings. It is completed by three stories set in Afghanistan, Galway and London.
The centrepiece was nominated for The Story Prize (2015), and the story «What Time is it Now, Where You Are?» for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award (2016).
Short-form literary fiction, suitable for reading groups and for readers interested in contemporary Irish narrative.
Colum McCann is an Irish writer of literary fiction. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and currently resides in New York. Awards he has won include the U.S. National Book Award and the International Dublin Literary Award, and his work has been published in over 40 languages as well as being published in many American and international publications. He also is the co-founder and president of Narrative 4, an international empathy education nonprofit.
