Haven

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Picador
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 256 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monksyoung Trian and old Cormache rows down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. In such a place, what will survival meanThree men vow to leave the world behind them. They set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. What they find is the extraordinary island now known as Skellig Michael. Haven has Emma Donoghues trademark world-building and psychological intensitybut this story is like nothing she has ever written before.

ISBN: 9781529091144