Irish · b. 1945
John Banville is a Booker Prize–winning Irish novelist celebrated as one of the finest prose stylists in contemporary literature, author of The Sea and The Book of Evidence.
John Banville is renowned for the extraordinary beauty and precision of his prose, crafting novels of memory, art, guilt, and consciousness that reward close reading.
His novel The Sea won the Booker Prize in 2005, while The Book of Evidence was shortlisted and became a modern classic. His work often explores unreliable narrators and the workings of memory and perception. Under the pen name Benjamin Black, he also writes acclaimed crime fiction.
Banville is widely regarded as one of the great living stylists in English, a writer’s writer admired for the sheer artistry of his sentences.
by John Banville
Art historian Max Morden, recently widowed, returns to the Irish seaside town where he spent a childhood summer with the Grace family — a summer that ended in tragedy he has spent decades not quite understanding. The novel interweaves present grief with recovered memory in prose of extraordinary density.
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