THE DEAD

The greatest short story in an exquisite hardback gift edition.

'The more deeply one penetrates into its intricately woven textures the more elusive it becomes.' —John Banville

NUALA O’CONNOR is a novelist, short story writer and poet, and lives in County Galway with her family. She is the
author of six previous novels, including the bestselling Nora (2021), about James Joyce's wife, Nora Barnacle, and six short-story collections. She has won many prizes for her short fiction, including the Francis MacManus Award and the James Joyce Quarterly Fiction Contest. Her story ‘This Giddy Life’ was awarded writing.ie Short Story of the Year at the 2022 Irish Book Awards. Her work has also been nominated for numerous prizes including the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the International Dublin Literary Award. nualaoconnor.com

JAMES JOYCE (1882–1941) was an Irish novelist, short story writer and poet. He is best known for the influential modernist novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) as well as the masterful short story collection Dubliners (1914). Though he spent most of his adult life in Paris, Zurich and Trieste, his birthplace of Dublin was the setting for all of his major fictional works.