HomeGroupsTalkMoreZeitgeist
Search Site
This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Results from Google Books

Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.

Ciutat de Bohane by Kevin Barry
Loading...

Ciutat de Bohane (original 2011; edition 2015)

by Kevin Barry, Ferran Ràfols Gesa (Translator)

MembersReviewsPopularityAverage ratingMentions
5112647,412 (3.83)53
Set 40 years in the future, the once great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is in terminal decline, with vice and tribal splits rife. Logan Hartnett, godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang has been in charge but his nemesis has arrived back in town, his henchmen are becoming ambitious, his wife wants him to give it all up and go straight and, he has his mother to contend with.… (more)
Member:missmas
Title:Ciutat de Bohane
Authors:Kevin Barry
Other authors:Ferran Ràfols Gesa (Translator)
Info:Barcelona : Raig verd, 2015
Collections:Your library
Rating:****
Tags:None

Work Information

City of Bohane by Kevin Barry (2011)

Loading...

Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 53 mentions

English (24)  Swedish (1)  Spanish (1)  All languages (26)
Showing 1-5 of 24 (next | show all)
fascinating ideas and excellent language ( )
  Mcdede | Jul 19, 2023 |
Ulysses meets Clockwork Orange. Quite brilliant. In particular there is a scene where the newspaper editor meets the Gant and a child runner returns from Bohane with news of a gang feud that is hysterical and, at least for me, very reminiscent of Joyce. Not much to say, this book has been widely reviewed. ( )
  markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |
I don't know how I feel about this book. I may change my rating tomorrow. I really don't know.

update 16 November, 2017: when I first finished this book, I was struck by how little I cared about these characters, how their overwhelmingly negative aspects seemed to outweigh all positive wonder at how unique and interesting a book this is. Really, I'm sooo sick of gangsters.

After thinking about it a while, I decided that the ending, as well as the premise and execution in general, deserve another star. At least. I'm still a little torn.

In some ways, this book bucks expectations (in plot, as well as in generic tropes), but in other ways it seems to go the lazy way forward and that's what's still holding me back from giving it more stars. Right now I'm thinking specifically about Jenni using the "that guy touched me inappropriately" lie to prompt Wolfie to go after Tubby. Booooring. And this book's relationship with women is complicated, which is sometimes useful and intriguing and sometimes just gross. Is it worth it to get through the gross to the end? Sure. I think.

One thing that can be said for it is that it's got me thinking. A LOT.

Update, 7 January, 2017: I'm writing an essay on this and looking through the book I ended up rereading the whole thing. I liked it more this time around. ( )
  J.Flux | Aug 13, 2022 |
I liked the swirl of displacement and wonder that I went through trying to get my bearings in this gang-dominated post-apocalyptic coastal Irish city. I'm sure Irish readers would get more from the text than I did but I enjoyed the plunge into unfamiliar territory. By the end I was a little tired of the sartorial details (what economy supported all this fashion action?) and gang leader strategizing. It felt like it was heavily inspired by the 1928 book The Gangs of New York. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gangs_of_New_York_(book)) I read another book that included that work as a mainstay, Helprin's White Horse. A little disappointed by the changing of the guard at the end and the complete disappearance of one of our characters. I would be interested in reading something else by this author. ( )
  Je9 | Aug 10, 2021 |
Wow! Barry has created a future, dark world of Bohane. The description of the city is something right out of Pinky Blinders and the characters are incredible. Be prepared to read a book unlike anything you have ever read. ( )
  ghefferon | Jun 12, 2021 |
Showing 1-5 of 24 (next | show all)
"On display, even more than the strutting characters' fashion sense, is the author's virtuosic writing: he has created a unique vernacular of Irish speech patterns mixed with Caribbean terms, delivered in a breathless, conversational style. This hybrid will be of interest both to fantasy and to literary fiction readers."
added by Christa_Josh | editLibrary Journal, John R. Cecil (Nov 1, 2011)
 
You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.
For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.
Canonical title
Original title
Alternative titles
Original publication date
People/Characters
Important places
Important events
Related movies
Epigraph
Dedication
First words
Quotations
Last words
Disambiguation notice
Publisher's editors
Blurbers
Original language
Canonical DDC/MDS
Canonical LCC

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English (2)

Set 40 years in the future, the once great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is in terminal decline, with vice and tribal splits rife. Logan Hartnett, godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang has been in charge but his nemesis has arrived back in town, his henchmen are becoming ambitious, his wife wants him to give it all up and go straight and, he has his mother to contend with.

No library descriptions found.

Book description
The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees. Infested by vice and split along triballines, there are still some posh parts of town but it is in the slums and backstreets of Smoketown, the tower blocks of the Northside Rises and the eerie bogs of Big Nothin’ that the city really lives. For years, Bohane has been in the cool grip of Logan Hartnett, the dapper godfather of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But now they say his old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious and there’s trouble in the air...
Haiku summary

Current Discussions

None

Popular covers

Quick Links

Rating

Average: (3.83)
0.5
1
1.5
2 7
2.5 2
3 27
3.5 11
4 43
4.5 10
5 23

Is this you?

Become a LibraryThing Author.

 

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 203,234,527 books! | Top bar: Always visible