Topographia Hibernica
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Blindboy Boatclub
About this listen
The short-story collection from Irish bestselling author, musician and comedian Blindboy Boatclub.
You don't fully appreciate how large a donkey's head is until it's beside you in a Fiat Punto. The view in my mirror was furry and violent. I was driving blind.
Driving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat; jackdaws pecking brains out through the roof of a confessional box; cat piss and astronauts. This is the world not as you see it, but as it is, twisted from the maverick mind of Blindboy Boatclub.
These are stories of the strange unsettlings in the souls of men caught in between the past and the possible; stories of heart-blinding rage and disquieting compassion.
Taking its title from a twelfth-century English manuscript of the same name, which dehumanised the people and culture of Ireland to facilitate domination, Topographia Hibernica is a collection that unravels the knotted threads of humanity, nature and colonisation from a contemporary Irish perspective.
Called 'one of the most gifted writers of his generation' by the Irish Times, Blindboy Boatclub is the essential voice for the Irish condition in the twenty-first century. Topographia Hibernica is his unmissable short-story collection.
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-27-23
Even better than Small Bones And A Fist
Blindboy writes the most bizarrely brilliant prose, tells the most queerly engaging stories, and then, like adding salt to a meal, brings out the deeper flavours with his accompanying score. The Pistils of the Dandelions was the first story in a long time to reach right into my chest and crush my heart. R.I.P Silken Thomas.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-27-23
Fantastic short stories
Laugh and cry his words and story telling are wonderful to listen to. Highly recommend
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- Anonymous User
- 11-23-23
masterpiece
blindboy masterfully reads his own stories . each story is it's own captivating journey
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- Az
- 01-31-24
Fantastical
Blindboy Boatclub has delivered a stunningly impressive set of stories with laugh out loud and magical moments of intense and precise imagery.
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- joseph
- 11-19-23
Best short story book ever.
Magical from start to finish. Chapter 7 is the funniest thing I’ve heard since Richard Pryor albums. Massive talent.
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