Night boat to Tangier : a novel

ISBN: 9780345810663
ISBN: 9780345810670 (paperback)
Physical Description: print regular print 255 pages ; 20 cm
Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2019.
Copyright: &copy;2019.
Badges: Top Holds Over Last 5 Years : 2 / 5.0

Barry, Kevin 1969- (author.).

Summary: In the dark waiting room of the ferry terminal in the sketchy Spanish port of Algeciras, two fading Irish gangsters, Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond--longtime partners in the lucrative and dangerous enterprise of smuggling drugs--are waiting on the boat from Tangier, and none too patiently. It is October 23, 2018, and they are expecting Maurice's estranged daughter (or is she?), Dilly, to either arrive on a boat coming from Tangier or depart on one heading there. This nocturnal vigil will initiate an extraordinary journey back in time to excavate their shared history of violence, romance, mutual betrayals and serial exiles. Mordant and hilarious, lyrical yet laden with menace, Night Boat to Tangier is a tragicomic masterpiece rendered with the dark humour and the hardboiled Hibernian lyricism that have made multi award-winning writer Kevin Barry one of the most striking and admired fiction writers at work today.