Cal

Author: MacLaverty, Bernard

Northern Ireland

Published on 2 May 2019 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Irish Classics' series.

Paperback / softback | 176 pages
193 x 139 x 12 | 134g

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that nauseates him or join the dole queue; he can brood on his past or plan a future with Marcella. Springing out of the fear and violence of Ulster, Cal is a haunting love story that unfolds in a land where tenderness and innocence can only flicker briefly in the dark.

See also: Lies of Silence by Brian Moore