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2012 novel by Donal Ryan

First edition

The Spinning Heart is a social novel written by Irish novelist Donal Ryan. It was first published in 2012 by Penguin Random House. Steerforth Press published the US edition in 2013. It won the 2012 Irish Book Award for the Newcomer of the Year and Book of the Year. It won the 2013 Guardian First Book Award It also won the European Union Prize for Literature (Ireland) in 2015 It was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award in 2014. In 2016 it was voted Irish Book of the Decade in a poll run by Dublin Book Festival.

Plot

The Spinning Heart is set in the aftermath of the collapse of the Celtic Tiger. Each chapter is told from the perspective of a different character, affected by the recession in a different way as a local property developer, Pokey Burke, goes bust and flees the country.

References

  1. Ryan, Donal (20 October 2013). "THE SPINNING HEART". Kirkus Reviews. Archived from the original on 11 November 2021.
  2. Barry, Sebastian (8 January 2014). "The Thing About December by Donal Ryan – review". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014.
  3. Kalotay, Daphne (21 March 2014). "Donal Ryan's 'Spinning Heart'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 21 March 2014.
  4. Boland, Rosita (23 November 2012). "Banville wins novel of year at awards". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 23 November 2012.
  5. "The Spinning Heart wins Book of the Year". RTÉ. 18 December 2012. Archived from the original on 2 July 2018.
  6. Press, GNM (28 November 2013). "Donal Ryan has been named the winner of the 2013 Guardian First Book Award". The Guardian.
  7. "Winners of the European Union Prize for Literature 2015 (EUPL) on display in Frankfurt". Federation of European Publishers. 14 October 2015.
  8. "The Spinning Heart | The Booker Prizes". The Booker Prizes.
  9. Hilliard, Mark (9 April 2014). "Donal Ryan among writers shortlisted for 2014 Impac Award". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 10 April 2014.
  10. "Donal Ryan wins Dublin Book Festival's Book of The Decade". 14 November 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. Jordan, Justine (28 November 2013). "The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan – review". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 29 November 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2023.


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