Dooneen

Ridgway, Keith

ISBN 10: 0811240452 / ISBN 13: 9780811240451

Published by New Directions Publishing, 2026

2026. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780811240451

Synopsis:

The astonishing Irish literary magician Keith Ridgway pulls from his hat the 21st-century’s Great Dublin Novel

Bartholomew Port, known to all as Mew, steps into the bushes in a London park and steps out of the bushes in a Dublin one. Not only that―there are no cars; there are moving footpaths; there is no church; everything seems quite queer. Home by invitation, he has arrived in a Dublin that is alive with song, with rumor, with tunnels, with ghosts, and with an unmistakable sense of insurgency. In this suspiciously timeless city that breathes an old revolutionary air, Mew fiercely misses his beloved Mootie, back home in London. An unraveling, an impossibility, a gathering of voices, and a single dream, Dooneen is the layered, allusive and wildly original new novel from Keith Ridgway, “one of Ireland’s best writers, in a country with no shortage of them” (The Times).

About the Author: Keith Ridgway is a Dubliner living in London. His previous novels include A Shock (winner of the 2022 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction), Hawthorn & Child, and Animals. He has also been awarded the Prix Fémina Étranger and Premier Roman Étranger, the O Henry Award, and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His books have been acclaimed "ingeniously slippery” (Lucy Scholes, New York Times Book Review),  “bleak, hilarious, chilling and hopeful” (Louie Conway, Vanity Fair), and "like Finnegans Wake, only readable” (John Self, London Times).

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dooneen
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Publication Date: 2026
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New