Every One Still Here
Published by: Granta Books
A gripping collection of stories in which the political past and political present are interwoven to produce an atmosphere charged with grief and meaning
A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus.
A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones.
Bouquets are found all over a museum.
Teenagers gather to dissect a human body.
Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope.
In this bravura debut collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political.
Read an extract from the book here.
Our judges said:
I was gripped by Every One Still Here. I loved the daring of its wrought metaphors; its taut, pitch-perfect dialogue; its haunting attention to the power of silence and of things left unsaid. I especially admired the ways in which each individual story conjures a highly distinctive but often elusive voice, involving the reader in the attempt to make sense of each character’s personal and familial histories – histories which emerge as subtly political even when they are not outrightly, traumatically so."
