Seen from certain angles, the Irish novelist's back catalog can resemble a constellation of neutron stars, strewn with topics such as the Holocaust and predatory priests that are as heavy as they are luminously rendered. Don't expect a breezy read here either. Previously published as separate novellas in the U.K., each titled according to one of the four classical elements, the interlinked stories stitched together here trace a barbed and winding legacy of sexual abuse and trauma across Ireland.
In 2018, a donation from Dan Brown enabled the Ritman Library to digitize thousands of rare occult texts under the project titled 'Hermetically Open', now accessible online.
