An outstanding novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Siege of Krishnapur Reissued with a wonderful new cover treatment Troubles won the Faber Memorial Prize 'With sadness among the laughter ... a brilliant recreation of a lost period' Evening Standard 'Enchanting' Sunday Times 'Mr Farrell is an eccentric and highly gifted writer' The Times 'The evidence of change and decay at the Majestic is no parochial phenomenon and it is this feeling of the particular reflecting the universal, a feeling so successfully pervading page after page of this clever book, that makes it a tour de force' Guardian
J.G Farrell was born in Liverpool in 1935 and spent a good deal of his life abroad, including periods in France and North America and then settled in London where he wrote most of his novels. In April 1979 he went to live in County Cork where only four months later he was drowned in a fishing accident.
A work of genius
*Guardian*
One of the finest novels of the past 50 years
*Mail on Sunday*
Funny, sad and beautifully written; prescient, wise, original and
unexpectedly eccentric
*Observer*
TROUBLES has everything: great story, compelling characters,
believable dialogue and big ideas. It's a book good enough to win
the Booker in any year. Not just 1970.
*GUARDIAN*
Like Fawlty Towers written by Evelyn Waugh
*Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival*
No finer work has ever been written about this transitional period
in Irish history: it remains a landmark in 20th-century Irish
literature, and one that deserves to win The One And Only Great
Retrospective Booker
*IRISH INDEPENDENT*
Farrell's vision and voice are unique, inimitable
*John Banville*
It's funny, sad and beautifully written; it's prescient, wise,
original and unexpectedly eccentric. Vote JG, I say. Or even
better, just read him.
*OBSERVER*
Troubles has everything: great story, compelling characters,
believable dialogue and big ideas. It's a book good enough to win
the Booker in any year. Not just 1970.
*GUARDIAN*
Like Fawlty Towers written by Evelyn Waugh
*Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival, 2010*
'I can't praise this book enough. It's a good rule that reviewers
should be forbidden from using the word "genius"...But it's hard to
know what else to say when faced with a book like Troubles. There's
no avoiding it. JG Farrell was a genius.'
*GUARDIAN BOOKS BLOG*
No finer work has ever been written about this transitional period
in Irish history: it remains a landmark in 20th-century Irish
literature, and one that deserves to win The One And Only Great
Retrospective Booker.
*IRISH INDEPENDENT*
Troubles stands up at every stage. It has a fine beginning and a
brilliant ending, and is sustained throughout by this wit, laughter
and intelligence.
*INDEPENDENT*
meaty and magnificent¿He [Farrell] is a master at controlling pace,
and his writing is satisfyingly solid. He is capable of the most
vigorous farce, and then he will bring things to the knife edge of
tragedy¿a fine and fitting winner.
*DAILY TELEGRAPH*
Poignant, meticulously observed, often hilarious, it is one of the
finest novels of the past 50 years.
*MAIL ON SUNDAY*
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