Love
Book description
'A profound examination of friendship, romantic confusion and mortality' John Boyne
One summer's evening, two men meet up in a Dublin restaurant. Old friends, now married and with grown-up children, their lives have taken seemingly similar paths. But Joe has a secret he has to tell Davy, and Davy a…
Why read it?
1 author picked Love as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
What could be more Irish than two old friends meeting in a pub to tell stories?
Thing is, one of the friends has a life-changing secret to tell. He’s left his wife and kids for another woman, a woman they both know from their school days. Throughout the night, in pub after pub, and pint after pint, the story of the friend’s new love is revealed as the conversation delves deeper into each man’s version of the past they have shared—their fathers, their lovers, and even their collective memories of their Irish childhoods.
At times the story is both amusing…
From David's list on the essence of the Irishman’s melancholic emotions.
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