The Fig Tree Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

The Fig Tree Eiléan Ní ChuilleanáinThe Fig Tree is a novel composed of the intertwining stories of the family of Jadran, a 30 something who tries to piece together the story of his relatives in order to better understand himself. Because he cannot understand why Anja walked out of their shared life, he tries to understand the suspicious death of his grandfather and the withdrawal of his grandmother into oblivion and dementia. With all his might, Jadran tries to understand the departure

juice – from cause to consequence

Words like trout

my seal-grey limestone on your green slate

All round the brown mountains

1923) was born in Cardiff and studied Medicine at Cardiff

Asian London

shot-through with eccentric details and rueful wit

including those first published in the highly-rated Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust (1999) and more than a dozen new stories

thinks he has been invited to do some paintings for Nevinson

and American writers have appeared in the Irish Times

This is his debut collection

On a dark and stormy night