Stone Kingdoms

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'A rich and deeply thoughtful book' The Times 'This a cry from the heart for Ireland: a powerful novel about guilt and absolution' Independent on Sunday 'A powerful, beautifully crafted book. Stone Kingdoms will add to Park's reputation as a magnificent writer' Belfast Telegraph _______________ Haunted by the Troubles in Northern Ireland and trapped in a land between the mountains and the sea, Naomi dreams of another life far from the rainy shores of Donegal. When she moves from the rain swept shores of Ireland to work in a refugee camp in the burning heat of Africa, Naomi exchanges the city streets of Belfast for the arid desert. Though she leaves behind the land where she was born, escaping her past is not so easy.

David Park has written eight previous books including The Big Snow, Swallowing the Sun, The Truth Commissioner and, most recently, The Poets' Wives. He has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award, the Bass Ireland Arts Award for Literature, the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award and the University of Ulster's McCrea Literary Award, three times. He has received a Major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award three times. In 2014 he was longlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. He lives in County Down, Northern Ireland.

A rich and deeply thoughtful book * The Times * This a cry from the heart for Ireland: a powerful novel about guilt and absolution * Independent on Sunday * A powerful, beautifully crafted book. Stone Kingdoms will add to Park's reputation as a magnificent writer * Belfast Telegraph * He writes prose of gravity and grace ... Line for line, it is hard to think of a more skilful contemporary Irish novelist * Guardian * An astute story teller whose vision is sustained by instinct, intelligent observation and a sense of responsibility * Irish Times *