Troubles: Winner of the 2010 "Lost Man Booker Prize" for Fiction (Empire Trilogy) - Softcover

Remarkable ... Mr. Farrell deserves high praise for this novel. It is subtly modulated, richly textured, sad, funny, and altogether memorable.
-- Times Literary Supplement

A tour de force ... sad, tragic, also very funny.
-- The Guardian

Farrell wrote superbly; all his books had a quality that hallmarks great literary talent--he could "do" texture. This album--which is what Troubles feels like--records the same Anglo-Irish as Elizabeth Bowen knew and belonged to. As with Bowen, this feels like the real thing (which is all a novel has to do). Always judge a writer by his grasp of what he doesn't know: Farrell died young yet his old people are almost his best creations.
-- Frank Delaney, The Guardian

In a heart-rending story set in 1919 Ireland, the Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough marks its decline through its dwindling guest list and the World War I veteran who returns to his homeland to claim a family legacy. Reprint.