{"product_id":"land","title":"Land","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMAGGIE O'FARRELL was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972. Her novels include \n\u003ci\u003eHamnet \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction), \n\u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait, After You'd Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Hand That First Held Mine\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and \n\u003ci\u003eInstructions for a Heatwave\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written a memoir, \n\u003ci\u003e I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Edinburgh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"A rich portrait of family life. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eLand \u003c\/i\u003eis a historical novel imbued with O'Farrell's signature interest in absorbing family relationships. . . . O'Farrell's writing is propulsive and luscious throughout.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"O'Farrell is expansive, full of rigor. . . . [ \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e] stages an argument about the virtues of various types of maps--those that are measured, those that are recollected, those that are dreamed. Some of these approaches require meticulous scholarship and technical proficiency; others, an attunement to the invisible realms of feeling and folklore.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e, O'Farrell's sweeping tenth novel and third consecutive work of historical fiction, is her most ambitious and dynamic work to date. At the sentence level, its craftsmanship sings; her prose is as lush and imbued with the miraculous as it is lived-in and inviting. . . . O'Farrell renders each member of this family and their respective responses to their new home with the precise and tender intuition that distinguishes her as a storyteller.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eVulture \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[ \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e] is ambitious, wide and deep, exploring very Irish themes. . . . O'Farrell's luminous prose sweeps us from place to place and from time to time.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"At once canny and artful, \n\u003ci\u003eLand \u003c\/i\u003emanages to transport its reader to a distance time and place while simultaneously alluding obliquely to the concerns of today. . . . Throughout, O'Farrell deftly balances passages of lush, literary description and rumination on loss with nuggets of narrative-fueling conflict.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A soaring, visionary narrative. . . . As the struggling men and women in \n\u003ci\u003eLand \u003c\/i\u003eendure defeat and distrust victory, it is their frailty as much as their strength that wins our sympathy and holds our attention.\" ­ \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An ambitious, emotionally rich work. . . . O'Farrell has written yet another haunting and deeply humane story.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A powerful epic. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eLand \u003c\/i\u003eis lushly written, atmospheric, and heartbreaking--yet it is also a moving paean to perseverance, survival, and forgiveness. . . . A magnificent achievement.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eLand \u003c\/i\u003eis filled with lush, almost fragrant prose. . . . Every word matters, though, which O'Farrell makes clear in the final 130 pages of this epic. . . . The last section of \n\u003ci\u003eLand \u003c\/i\u003eis the best thing I've read this year.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Chris Hewitt, \u003ci\u003eThe Minnesota Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Epic and devastating. . . . Sometimes--rarely--there is a book that I want to read again immediately, the very moment I have reached its last page. A book to be consumed slowly, rolling every sentence in your mind and heart. Maggie O'Farrell's new novel \n\u003ci\u003eLand \u003c\/i\u003eis such a book.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Andrea Wulf, \u003ci\u003e The New Statesman \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"O'Farrell's most ambitious work . . . an epic of Ireland. . . . Perhaps O'Farrell's greatest feat with \n\u003ci\u003eLand \u003c\/i\u003eis her attunement to both the intricacies of human lives and the broader sweep of nationhood.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A rich, irresistible story. . . . O'Farrell is not just telling a 19th-century story, she's tilling the fields of those great Victorian novelists who understood that the only thing that redeems the contrivance of an unlikely coincidence is the pleasurable shock it gives us.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Ron Charles\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Daniel Mason, author of \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is a vast, darkly magical novel from a masterful writer. Maggie O'Farrell's historical fiction illuminates not only the past, but our own moment in time. A brilliant and powerful novel.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Alice Winn, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Memoriam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This deep, dense, heartrending novel is the best of Maggie O'Farrell, who is the best of writers, modern and alive, with the detailed brilliance of great nineteenth-century storytellers. All I need as a reader is in \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Amy Bloom, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Love \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is as visceral as a novel can get. It feels deeply and it tells deeply, both of nature and of the small tragedy of man. It's rare to find a story so grand told with such a fine brush. \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e read to me as ancient and brand-new all at once, and something best experienced by diving into it headfirst.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Yael van der Wouden, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Safekeep \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Expansive and intimate, this beautiful book swallowed me whole. I loved it and will miss its characters terribly.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Charlotte McConaghy, author of \u003ci\u003eWild Dark Shore\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Wondrous and magisterial.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Kamila Shamsie, author of \u003ci\u003eHome Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A deep-mapping of a place and its people, a heart-bursting story of resilience and love. \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is simply the best novel I've read in years.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Louise Kennedy, author of \u003ci\u003eTrespasses \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A visceral and magical story about separation, and our complex relationship with the world beyond words.\" \n\u003cb\u003e --Rachel Joyce, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Haunting and elemental in its evocation, \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel of startling imagination and power. Upon finishing it, I did not feel so much that I had read a book as lived inside it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e --Ferdia Lennon, author of \u003ci\u003eGlorious Exploits\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A stunning achievement. Maggie O'Farrell's most ambitious novel yet, and maybe her most moving. I adored it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e --Bobby Palmer, author of \u003ci\u003eMain Characters \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A stunning and gorgeous epic. . . . O'Farrell paints a devasting yet tender portrait of Irish history.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Evocative and impassioned. . . . Steeped in Irish history and folklore, alive with a sense of wonder.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A transfixing epic . . . [ \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e] adds to O'Farrell's reputation as a superb literary stylist. . . . This wonderfully expansive yet intimate saga, which illustrates how individuals survive the devastating legacies of imperialism and religious control, offers a sense of empathetic harmony between author and subject.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"O'Farrell's latest is highly recommended for all fiction collections. This lyrical and moving historical novel about Ireland and one family within its larger history will enchant her fans and anyone who likes family sagas.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Majestic. . . . O'Farrell's prose is a gift: Her language is lush and muscular. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eLand \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of great losses--and greater power.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBookPage \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - The award-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished \u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies.\" --Daniel Mason, author of \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and the lives of those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás, and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping and get them both home? \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. As spellbinding and varied as the landscape that inspired it, \n\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e is, above all, a story of survival, for our times and for all time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780593320648, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/30\/0001 (EAN 9780593320648, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9780593320648, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 pg. 117 (EAN 9780593320648, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/27\/2026 (EAN 9780593320648, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496293204246,"sku":"9780593320648","price":38.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780593320648.jpg?v=1783059176","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/land","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}