Nights Beneath the Nation

By Denis Kehoe

One fateful, scandalous night brings the curtain down on Daniel Ryan's life in Dublin during the 1950s. Years later, returning from an exile in New York, he is pursued by a shady young man--and the ghosts of his past.

Set against the backdrop of a production of Federico Garc a Lorca's Blood Wedding, Denis Kehoe's debut is a sepia-toned tribute to love and loss.

Denis Kehoe lives in Dublin. Nights Beneath the Nation is his first novel.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846686792
• ISBN13: 9781846686795
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Brisk, Haunting

I've never been to Ireland, let alone Dublin in the early 1950's, and this book took me there. The first-person voice is so perfectly calibrated that Daniel is pretty much a living, breathing person. And I'm glad it's told in the first person, with a character looking back at his youth. It just wouldn't have worked otherwise. Seen objectively the follies of youth are just too embarrassing. Sometimes I go back and read my diaries from my early 20's and just have to shake my head over things. This is a novel that beautifully captures the fleeting moment when (as Daniel says) you truly are experiencing new things for the very first time.