About the Author: John Boyne is an Irish novelist, born in 1971. His first short story was published in 1993 in the Sunday Tribune and was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award. He is the author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, Knock Down Ginger, Noah Barleywater Runs Away, and The Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket. His books have been translated into over 50 languages. He lives in Dublin.
About the Book: Cyril Avery is not a real Avery — or at least, that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he?
Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead. At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from – and over his many years, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country, and much more.
In this, Boyne’s most transcendent work to date, we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man. The Heart’s Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh and cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit.
My Thoughts: WHY DIDN'T I READ THIS BOOK LAST YEAR!!! This story was so amazing. It made me laugh. It made me cry. It made me happy. And it made me angry as hell. This takes place in Ireland and our main man was born to a teenage woman who was not married. She was cast out because of this. This is what bothers me. The bible says we must not judge others, but what precisely were these priests and community members doing. They were judging a teenager and basically damned her and Cyril.
With how big this book is, I got through it quickly. I am definitely going to re-read it more slowly. John Boyne is just an amazing author.
With how big this book is, I got through it quickly. I am definitely going to re-read it more slowly. John Boyne is just an amazing author.
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