The Black Soul

O'Flaherty's intense novel of island passion and adultery

Author Liam O'Flaherty
ISBN 978-0863274787

A novel of passion and adultery set on a western island, written by a native of Inis Mór. O'Flaherty captures the claustrophobia and intensity of island life — the gossip, the violence of the sea, the weight of community — in prose that is both brutal and lyrical.

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