{"title":"Fiction - World Literature - Wales","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"whale-fall-9780593686010","title":"Whale Fall","description":"\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK - A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one's community \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhale Fall \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful novel, written with a calm, luminous precision, each feeling rendered with chiseled care, the drama of island life unfolding with piercing emotional accuracy.\" --Colm Toibin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful yet blisteringly harsh islands that her hardscrabble family has called home for generations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe arrival of two English ethnographers who hope to study the island culture, then, feels like a boon to her--both a glimpse of life outside her community and a means of escape. The longer the ethnographers stay, the more she feels herself pulled towards them, reckoning with a sensual awakening inside herself, despite her misgivings that her community is being misconstrued and exoticized. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith shimmering prose tempered by sharp wit, \u003ci\u003eWhale Fall \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of what happens when one person's ambitions threaten the fabric of a community, and what can happen when they are realized. O'Connor paints a portrait of a community and a woman on the precipice, forced to confront an outside world that seems to be closing in on them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth O'Connor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.29w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593686010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH O'CONNOR\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Birmingham. Her short stories have appeared in The White Review and Granta, and she was the 2020 winner of the White Review Short Story Prize. She holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Birmingham, specializing in the modernist writer H.D. and her writing of coastal landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Elizabeth O'Connor \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47281350574237,"sku":"9780593686010","price":29.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_c28c4b99-4f08-4419-b993-302f989e5610.jpg?v=1759930025"},{"product_id":"whale-fall-9780593700914","title":"Whale Fall","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK - A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one's community \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Both blunt and exquisite . . . O'Connor's excellent debut . . . is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character's specific existence glimmer with verisimilitude.\"--Maggie Shipstead, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhale Fall \u003c\/i\u003eis a powerful novel, written with a calm, luminous precision, each feeling rendered with chiseled care, the drama of island life unfolding with piercing emotional accuracy.\" --Colm Toibin, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. 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The longer the ethnographers stay, the more she feels herself pulled towards them, reckoning with a sensual awakening inside herself, despite her misgivings that her community is being misconstrued and exoticized. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith shimmering prose tempered by sharp wit, \u003ci\u003eWhale Fall \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of what happens when one person's ambitions threaten the fabric of a community, and what can happen when they are realized. 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