TransAtlantic: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• A dazzlingly talented author’s latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann’s most penetrating novel yet.

  — O: The Oprah Magazine  

• One of the greatest pleasures of TransAtlantic is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. . . . Here is the uncanny thing McCann finds again and again about the miraculous: that it is inseparable from the everyday.

  — The Boston Globe

• Ingenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, and—given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history—in blood.

  — Esquire

• Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy.

  — The Seattle Times

• Entrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music—elation and sorrow.

  — The Denver Post

• “This novel is beautifully hypnotic in its movements, from the grand (between two continents, across three centuries) to the most subtle.”

  — Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author

• “A dazzlingly talented author’s latest high-wire act…National Book Award winner Colum McCann weaves an intricate tapestry that illuminates the anguish of Irish history and the deeper agonies of war. TransAtlantic reads as a series of interconnected novellas, shifting between decades, among an unlikely cast of richly drawn characters…Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann’s most penetrating novel yet.”

  — O: The Oprah Magazine

• “Ingenious…The intricate connections he has crafted between the stories of his women and our men will, by the end, have you trying to figure out, in pencil, what he seems to have written in air, in water, and—given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history—in blood.”

  — Esquire

• “McCann takes on the lives of men and women who have chosen to leap across the ocean from Ireland to the New World or back again. It’s a journey that the Dublin-born McCann…knows well, and he uses that knowledge and sympathy to create real voyages of the imagination.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “McCann is back with another elaborately constructed book…a series of intensely personal moments in the lives of people celebrated, forgotten, or unknown. Fiction and nonfiction are blended together, beginning with famous men and then listening closely as their actions reverberate down a line of related women who lived in various degrees of anonymity.”

  — Washington Post

• “TransAtlantic is entrancing…Trusting and economic, McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music—elation and sorrow.”

  — Denver Post

• “This is what interests McCann: lives made amid and despite violence; the hidden braids of places, times, and people; the way the old days ‘arrive back in the oddest ways.’”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “A masterful and profoundly moving novel that employs exquisite language to explore the limits of language and the tricks of memory…A beautifully written novel, an experience to savor.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)