The Days Without End Series - Book 1
Days without End
“A great American novel which happens to have been written by an Irishman.”
Times Literary Supplement (London)
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book Award
A 2016 Guardian Best Book of the Year for Fiction
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Walter Scott Prize Winner in Historical Fiction
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Longlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award
An NPR Pick for 2017
A Time Magazine Best Book of 2017
A 2018 RUSA Notable Book in Fiction
Finalist for the Library Journal Best Audiobook Listen LIst
Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award
A London Guardian Pick of Best Books of the 21st Century
A Publishers Weekly Pick of Must-Read Crime Books Set in the American West
A Millions.com Pick
A Literary Hub Pick of Great Irish Novels Not Set in Ireland
From Sebastian Barry, a two-time finalist for the Man Booker Prize, comes a powerful and unforgettable novel chronicling a young Irish immigrant's army years in the Indian wars and the American Civil War.
Thomas McNulty, having fled the Great Famine in Ireland and now barely seventeen years old, signs up for the US Army in the 1850s and with his brother in arms, John Cole, goes to fight in the Indian Wars-against the Sioux and the Yurok-and, ultimately, in the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.
Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry's latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, Days without End is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten.
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