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Penguin Ireland Fiction Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse Philip Ó Ceallaigh Tales of work and idleness, ambition and frustration, wildness and sobriety, love and lust and decay. A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage. A young man walks through the hills of southwest Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about gold. On the morning of a medical examination, a woman tries to coax her husband off the roof. A mysterious rodent named Brigitte enters the lives of two old men. Scabrously honest, screamingly funny and beautifully crafted, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse is a brilliant debut from a writer who cannot be ignored by anyone who cares about the art of fiction. Pub Date February 2006 ISBN 1844880753 Price £10.99 Format Trade paperback Extent 288pp Territory UK and Commonwealth inc. Canada US Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White Translation Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White Film Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White Serial Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White Philip Ó Ceallaigh, a native of Co. Waterford, has lived and worked in Britain, Spain, Russia, the US, Kosovo and Georgia. He currently lives in Bucharest. Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse is his first book. 'With this debut collection Philip O'Ceallaigh gives us not just a new voice, but a whole new literary space. It lies somewhere between Ireland and Eastern Europe, a place where characters live out his harsh and careful fables about men's failure to love women. This work was, at a guess, slow in the making – do not read it too fast.’ Anne Enright
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Penguin Ireland Fiction
Notes from a Turkish WhorehousePhilip CeallaighTales of work and idleness, ambition and frustration, wildness and sobriety, love and lust and decay.
A performance artist opens his chest and displays his beating heart on stage. A young man walks through the hills of southwest Romania, where the locals have peculiar ideas about gold. On the morning of a medical examination, a woman tries to coax her husband off the roof. A mysterious rodent named Brigitte enters the lives of two old men.
Scabrously honest, screamingly funny and beautifully crafted, Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse is a brilliant debut from a writer who cannot be ignored by anyone who cares about the art of fiction.
Pub Date February 2006 ISBN 1844880753 Price 10.99 Format Trade paperback Extent 288pp Territory UK and Commonwealth inc. Canada US Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White Translation Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White Film Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White Serial Rights Rogers, Coleridge and White
Philip Ceallaigh, a native of Co. Waterford, has lived and worked in Britain, Spain, Russia, the US, Kosovo and Georgia. He currently lives in Bucharest. Notes from a Turkish Whorehouse is his first book. 'With this debut collection Philip O'Ceallaigh gives us not just a new voice, but a whole new literary space. It lies somewhere between Ireland and Eastern Europe, a place where characters live out his harsh and careful fables about men's failure to love women. This work was, at a guess, slow in the making do not read it too fast. Anne Enright
