A tragicomic masterwork from multi-award-winning writer Kevin Barry which is mordant and hilarious, lyrical yet laden with menace.

Late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras, two fading Irish gangsters are waiting on the boat from Tangier. A lover has been lost, a daughter has gone missing, their world has come asunder. Can it be put together again? Night Boat to Tangier is a novel drenched in sex, death and narcotics, in sudden violence and old magic, but it is obsessed, above all, with the mysteries of love.

"The prose is a caress, rolling out in swift, spaced paragraphs, a telegraphese of fleeting consciousness ... Barry’s sensibility is eerie; he is attuned to spirits, to malevolent presences, the psychic tundra around us. But what distinguishes this book beyond its humour, terror and beauty of description is its moral perception. For this is no liberal forgiveness tract for naughty boys: it is a plunging spiritual immersion into the parlous souls of wrongful men." - Alan Warner, The Guardian (UK)

Kevin Barry is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is the author of the novels Beatlebone, City of Bohane and Night Boat to Tangier and the story collections Dark Lies the Island and There Are Little Kingdoms. His awards include the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Goldsmiths Prize, the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award. His stories and essays have appeared in the New Yorker, Granta and elsewhere. He lives in County Sligo, Ireland.

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