Songdogs is a debut novel by National Book Award winner and Booker nominee Colum McCann, that explores the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from Europe to Mexico, told through the words of his son. Format: Paperback / softback Length: 240 pages Publication date: 07 January 2021 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The debut novel from National Book Award winner and Booker nominee Colum McCann Colum McCann conjures a hugely inventive debut Observer ‘McCann writes equally well about Ireland,America and Mexico,and he links past and present in a finely woven narrative: Songdogs is a vivid,beautifully measured book Sunday Times __________________ Colum McCann s first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War,following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico.The story is told in the words of the photographer s only son,a wanderer himself,who uses his father s unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland. The debut novel from National Book Award winner and Booker nominee Colum McCann Colum McCann conjures a hugely inventive debut Observer ‘McCann writes equally well about Ireland,America and Mexico,and he links past and present in a finely woven narrative: Songdogs is a vivid,beautifully measured book Sunday Times __________________ Colum McCann s first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War,following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico.The story is told in the words of the photographer s only son,a wanderer himself,who uses his father s unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland. Weight: 174g Dimension: 129 x 197 x 18 (mm) ISBN-13: 9781526617316