Award-winning Irish author Colum McCann will be at Kennys Bookshop on March 7th, when he will be interviewed about his new novel, Twist

Colum McCann is the author of eight novels and three collections of short stories. He has won numerous international honours including the U.S National Book Award and an Oscar, and his work has been published in over 40 languages to critical acclaim. He is the co-founder of Narrative 4, a global non-profit that uses story telling to build community engagement in schools around the world.

Twist is published on March 6th and signed, first edition copies will be available in Kennys on the night.

This event is ticketed but spaces are limited. Tickets are free.

About Twist:
Anthony Fennell, an Irish journalist and playwright, is assigned to cover the underwater cables that carry the world’s information. The sum of human existence—words, images, transactions, memes, voices, viruses—travels through the tiny fiber-optic tubes. But sometimes the tubes break, at an unfathomable depth.

Fennell’s journey brings him to the west coast of Africa, where he uncovers a story about the raw human labor behind the dazzling veneer of the technological world. He meets a fellow Irishman, John Conway, the chief of mission on a cable repair ship. The mysterious Conway is a skilled engineer and a freediver capable of reaching extraordinary depths. He is also in love with a South African actress, Zanele, who must leave to go on her own literary adventure to London.

When the ship is sent up the coast to repair a series of major underwater breaks, both men learn that the very cables they seek to fix carry the news that may cause their lives to unravel. At sea, they are forced to confront the most elemental questions of life, love, absence, belonging, and the perils of our severed connections. Can we, in our fractured world, reweave ourselves out of the thin, broken threads of our pasts? Can the ruptured things awaken us from our despair?

Signed copies of the book will be available to buy on the night, and are also available to pre-order.

Photo by Elizabeth Brown Eagle.