05.02.2019

By Yulia Dutka

Ireland will survive the apocalypse and be reborn. In 2053, it will return to correspondence and news-papers, and the main transport will be trams (they will determine the prestige of districts). The city of Bohane on the banks of the river of the same name is ruled by hipsters — a great taste for clothing and no taboos in cruelty.

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“The City of Bohane”. Nostalgia for the Past

Kevin Barry is a well-known contemporary Irish writer who has many stories in his creative portfolio. In fact, he is identified as a good writer in short prose. But he also wrote several novels, one of which, thanks to the Astrolabe Publishing, we are able to read in Ukrainian. This novel has won several rewards and has been recognized as one of the best to come out of the hands of Irish writers in recent years.

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Cold shivers are a great way to neutralize summer heat. For thriller lovers, Ukrainian publishers are happy to offer fresh books with different “tinges”: psychological, mystical, criminal ones. For example, Kevin Barry's “The City of Bohane” (the Astrolabe Publishing) is a post-apocalyptic thriller about a gang war in Western Ireland in 2053.

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By Oksana Drubko

Kevin Barry, “The City of Bohane”. I picked up the book to take a break from the bloody Middle Ages by Sapkowski and fell into no less bloody showdowns of post-apocalyptic Ireland. The near future has experienced an unnamed catastrophe that changed the world.

“The City of Bohane”: When You Feel the Book

The abstract hints that a pile of banditry on the remains of the post-apocalyptic world will be waiting for you; that the whole conflict was reduced to a gang war; that the answer to the question “Who conquered and gained power over the city of Bohane?” will be the upshot. The abstract is misleading. However, would you buy a book if you were told that this story is not about actions but about moods?