Taking two monks as companions, he is to journey to this storm-lashed rock – a place not “tainted by the breath of the world” – and found upon it a bastion of prayer. Artt’s dream, being divinely inspired, is also highly specific. God has visited him with a dream, he explains, of a solitary island “far away, in the western ocean”. It is to general relief, then, that Artt announces his departure. Donoghue does some deft scene-setting in these early pages, giving us a strong sense of a society still stitching together its disparate fabrics, a people not so much embracing the light of Christ as putting it where it wouldn’t be in the way. Bringing with him new and uncompromising notions, he finds himself an honoured if not entirely welcome guest, refusing the abbot’s wine and disparaging his lax observance of fast days. Artt, a learned priest recently returned from afar, arrives at the monastery of Cluain Mhic Nóise. Her novel The Wonder was a finalist for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and more recently, The Pull of the Stars was longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award.From the outset, it grounds itself in an early medieval Ireland that was much more plural and fluid than is often supposed. Room was an international bestseller and was adapted into a critically acclaimed film starring Brie Larson. Her books include the novels Landing, Room, Frog Music, The Wonder, The Pull of the Stars and the children's book The Lotterys Plus One. In such a place, what will survival mean? (From HarperCollins Canada)Įmma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian writer. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find the impossibly steep, bare island known today as Skellig Michael.
With two monks - young Trian and old Cormac - he rows down the River Shannon in search of an isolated spot in which to found a monastery.
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar priest named Artt has a dream in which God tells him to leave the sinful world behind.
Around the year 600, three men vow to leave the world behind and set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them.
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