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"Bernard MacLaverty’s powerful novel is a love story as affecting and tragic as you could want." —USA Today

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"A formidable fictional triumph." -- Observer
"Miraculously vivid precision…[MacLaverty] is a born novelist." -- Spectator
"To fashion a short, telling novel out of the hideous complexities of Northern Ireland takes narrative skill of a high order. In Cal Bernard MacLaverty has managed to do it superbly." -- Daily Telegraph
"Cal is a hard, dark gemstone of a book." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
"As a distillation of the dread and the guilt, the seeming futilities and momentary releases of life in Troubles-era Northern Ireland, it’s indelible." -- Emily Firetog - Literary Hub

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    A Paperback / softback by Bernard MacLaverty

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 22/08/2017
      ISBN13: 9780393354683, 978-0393354683
      ISBN10: 0393354687

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      "Bernard MacLaverty’s powerful novel is a love story as affecting and tragic as you could want." —USA Today

      Trade Review
      "A formidable fictional triumph." -- Observer
      "Miraculously vivid precision…[MacLaverty] is a born novelist." -- Spectator
      "To fashion a short, telling novel out of the hideous complexities of Northern Ireland takes narrative skill of a high order. In Cal Bernard MacLaverty has managed to do it superbly." -- Daily Telegraph
      "Cal is a hard, dark gemstone of a book." -- Cleveland Plain Dealer
      "As a distillation of the dread and the guilt, the seeming futilities and momentary releases of life in Troubles-era Northern Ireland, it’s indelible." -- Emily Firetog - Literary Hub

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