{"product_id":"graveyard-clay-9780300227062","title":"Graveyard Clay","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[This] translation . . . is remarkably elegant.”—William Brennan, \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A cause for celebration.”—Jan Gardner, \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Whatever their differences in tempo or phraseology, each of the current versions of Ó Cadhain’s most famous book is gloriously attuned to the energy, copiousness, invective and ribaldry of the original \u003ci\u003eCré na Cille\u003c\/i\u003e.”—Patricia Craig, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Wonderfully capture the surrealism and claustrophobia and jet-black humour of the original.”—Robert McMillen, \u003ci\u003eIrish News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A delightfully silly jaunt with a comic reach way beyond that growling, windy plot of land in the west . . . sparking renewed curiosity about the linguistic ingenuity of its author.”—Valerie Shanley, \u003ci\u003eIrish Mail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If \u003ci\u003eGraveyard Clay\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterfully faithful version of its original, it is also a rollicking recreation of a comic classic and a damn good read. . . . Ó Cadhain has been nobly served by his translators.”—Philip O’Leary, \u003ci\u003eDublin Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ó Cadhain’s linguistic tour de force has been very well served in this meticulous translation. It will be deeply satisfying for readers familiar with the original and will be of huge value to those struggling linguistically to access it. . . . An invaluable addition to Ó  Cadhain scholarship. . . . Like the best of translation, we can expect it to stimulate an ongoing dialogue with the original and to ensure the place of \u003ci\u003eCré na Cille\u003c\/i\u003e in the wider multilingual field of comparative literary studies.”—Mairin Nic Eoin, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s epic novel \u003ci\u003eCré na Cille\u003c\/i\u003e finds voice in an equally epic translation by Liam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson. A book to be cherished for centuries.”—Colum McCann, \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiam Mac Con Iomaire and Tim Robinson are winners of the Modern Language Association’s tenth Lois Roth Award for translation of a literary work\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A remarkable collaboration between two translators operating on the cusp between Irish and Hiberno-English, \u003ci\u003eGraveyard Clay\u003c\/i\u003e is true to the many different registers of Ó Cadhain’s masterpiece. It is a version in which imaginative audacity is tempered only by sound textual scruple.”—Declan Kiberd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864340509015,"sku":"9780300227062","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300227062.jpg?v=1722271496","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/graveyard-clay-9780300227062","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}