**Mike McCormack's first novel since the single-sentence Booker-listed
literary sensation Solar Bones, winner of the Goldsmith's Prize, the
BGE Irish Book of the Year Award, and the International Dublin Literary
Award
**
Exchanging the cascading lyricism of Solar Bones for a terse and
brooding noir style, This Plague of Souls was named a most anticipated
book of 2023 by The Guardian, The Irish Times, and The New Statesman
After a period of imprisonment, Nealon returns to an empty house in the
west of Ireland to find his wife and young son missing. Then he gets a
call from a man who claims to know what's happened to them--a man who'll
tell Nealon all he needs to know in return for a single meeting.
In a hotel lobby, in the shadow of an unfolding terrorist attack, Nealon
and the man embark on a conversation shot through with secrets and
unknown dangers, a verbal game of cat and mouse that ranges from
Nealon's past and crimes to Ireland's place in the world order to the
location of his family. This Plague of Souls is another ambitious and
formally daring masterwork from one of the most exciting novelists
working today.
