'The Heart's Invisible Furies' is the funny, touching story of an Irish Everyman
Sep 01, 2017
3 minutes
Irish author John Boyne's latest novel, , is a 600-page roman à clef with a portentous title and a United States cover design that's even more amateurish than its United Kingdom cover was – and yet it's the most inviting and completely spellbinding book this author has ever written, surpassing his bestselling "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" for spear-tip pathos, surpassing his immensely powerful "The Absolutist" for its historical vividness, and surpassing 2014's "A History of Loneliness" for its X-ray-accurate
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