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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Winner of the Dublin Impac International Prize Winner of Best Foreign Novel Award Weshanhu Award Winner of the Grinzane Award Winner of the Prix Deauville Winner of the Ambassador Book Award Winner of the Medici Book Club Prize Winner of the Aspen Literary Prize ‘A wow of a novel – rich, humane, brilliantly written and as deep as it is wide’ The Times ____________________________________ New York, August 1974: a man is walking in the sky. Between the newly built Twin Towers, the man twirls through the air. Far below, the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other: Corrigan, a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire, a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara, a drug-addled young artist; Gloria, solid and proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie, a hooker who used to dream of a better life; and Jazzlyn, her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York. In the shadow of one reckless and beautiful act, these disparate lives will collide, and be transformed for ever. ‘A glorious, thumping tale of intersecting lives, told in a language that all but sings’ Kamila Shamsie ‘One of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years ... an emotional tour de force’ New York Times ‘McCann has reinvented the city of New York in all its breathing, fighting, whining, joyous clamour’ Peter Carey, Observer

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An astonishing balancing act by a great writer prepared to take risks. A book to treasure * Daily Mail * A blockbuster, groundbreaking, heartbreaking, symphony of a novel ... No novelist writing of New York has climbed higher, dived deeper -- Frank McCourt McCann has reinvented the city of New York in all its breathing, fighting, whining, joyous clamour -- Peter Carey * Observer Books of the Year * A wow of a novel - rich, humane, brilliantly written and as deep as it is wide * The Times * This is a gorgeous book, multilayered and deeply felt, and it’s a damned lot of fun to read, too. Leave it to an Irishman to write one of the greatest-ever novels about New York. There’s so much passion and humor and pure lifeforce on every page of Let the Great World Spin that you’ll find yourself giddy, dizzy, overwhelmed -- Dave Eggers One of the most electric, profound novels…in years. Let the Great World Spin is an emotional tour de force * New York Times Book Review * McCann makes his prose dance across the surface of this ingeniously constructed novel. He is a fearless writer, experimenting with narrative styles, leaping from one story to the next * Telegraph * More tellingly McCann is that rare species in contemporary fiction: a literary writer who is an exceptional storyteller. This novel never trumpets itself as a metropolitan kaleidoscope, but prefers the quiet intimacy of personal suffering ... Put baldly: this is an exceptional performance by a writer whose originality and profound humanity is evident throughout this highly original and wondrous novel * Independent * McCann performs exquisite acts of ventriloquism * Financial Times * What a book! Complex and captivating … a very sensual novel -- John Boyne Every character … grabs you by the throat and makes you care. McCann’s dazzling polyphony walks the high wire and succeeds triumphantly -- Emma Donoghue

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Colum McCann’s seven novels and three collections of short stories have been published in over forty languages and received some of the world’s most prestigious literary awards and honours, including the National Book Award for his novel Let the Great World Spin in 2009. His novel TransAtlantic was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013, and his most recent novel, Apeirogon, also longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is an international bestseller on four continents. colummccann.com

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