The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit. In this, Boyne's most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from - and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more. But if he isn't a real Avery, then who is he?īorn out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. Read more Product details Publisher : Black Swan 1st edition (14 Dec.
Winner of the 2018 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Awardįrom the beloved New York Times bestselling author of The Boy In the Striped Pajamas, a sweeping, heartfelt saga about the course of one man's life, beginning and ending in post-war IrelandĬyril Avery is not a real Avery - or at least, that's what his adoptive parents tell him. The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit. Selected one of New York Times Readers’ Favorite Books of 2017 It is also a cultural history of the sociopolitical and sociocultural changes in his homeland, Ireland, within his lifetime (1945-2015), particularly in regard to homosexuality. Named Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year, 2017 This novel is a first person narrative, detailing the significant events in the life of the protagonist, Cyril Avery.
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