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Night Boat to Tangier

By: Kevin Barry
Narrated by: Kevin Barry
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Gloriously freewheeling – Guardian

It's a Kevin Barry novel, so the brilliance is expected; everything else is a brilliant surprise – Roddy Doyle

The gods of literature, who have so much love for Ireland, are sweet on Kevin Barry – Richard Beard

It's late one night at the Spanish port of Algeciras and 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 and death and narcotics, in sudden violence and old magic, but it is obsessed, above all, with the mysteries of love. A tragicomic masterwork from a multi-award-winning writer, Night Boat to Tangier is both mordant and hilarious, lyrical yet laden with menace.
©2019 Kevin Barry (P)2019 Canongate Books Ltd Dark Humour Genre Fiction Literature & Fiction Urban Fiction Witty

Critic Reviews

“Barry is a marvel: menacing, insistent, switching from brooding descriptions of the men’s nocturnal surroundings to their terse dialogue. The conviction with which he explores their search for Charlie’s missing daughter never fails.” (Financial Times, Audiobooks)

"A true wonder." (Max Porter)
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loved this tragic tale from the depths of its Irish background to the heights of its beautiful dark language and images

heartbreaking, funny, brutal, poetic.

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Great story. Great characters. Loved ambling along with the two boys. Narration was just perfect.

Great story.. Great characters

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This exquisite book is like listening to poetry, and the comedy elements of the main protagonists are delivered flawlessly by the narrator. Barry’s voice and imagery are outstanding

Brilliant story and narration by author

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This book is so brilliant, dark, funny and Irish. I listened to it once, then bought the eBook. I'm now listening to it and reading it at the same time (well, not literally). Every sentence is amazing. There is not a wasted word in the whole book. One of my favourite books, ever. Barry is a great reader. You have to hear him to get the Irish idioms and cadences. But you have to read it in print as well to savour every fascinating word.

ONE of the best books I've ever read

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Basically a chat between two aging Irish scoundrels with a rather bizarre background in drug running. Funny and poignant in turn the (back) story purrs along aided and abetted by the mellifluous tones of the author.

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