A Freed Singer Crosses Civil War Ruins Toward Belonging
Sebastian Barry's lyrical novel follows a freed singer through survival, loss and the search for home after war. Readers will be moved by the historical breadth, beautiful language and aching question of where belonging can be rebuilt.
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A Freed Singer Crosses Civil War Ruins Toward Belonging
Sebastian Barry's lyrical novel follows a freed singer through survival, loss and the search for home after war. Readers will be moved by the historical breadth, beautiful language and aching question of where belonging can be rebuilt.
- Book Synopsis
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For fans of All the Pretty Horses and West, an immersive and unforgettable novel about one man's life in the aftermath of the American Civil War.
‘I knew as I made my way home that there was no home. All the old things … were gone forever.’
Against this rapidly shifting landscape, Tennyson Bouguereau - freed man, devoted brother, nascent singer, conflicted soldier and wanted man - journeys to find meaning and belonging. From the relative safety of home in Tennessee with his sister Rosalee, he is offered the possibility of a whole new life in Nashville, until a surprising trip to Victorian England changes everything.
Exquisitely rendered, and with a rich cast of characters, The Newer World is a lyrical, visceral novel about what it is to survive, and what might be lost along the way.
Ideal for readers who:
- Want Sebastian Barry's Civil War aftermath told through a singer and wanted man.
- Enjoy historical fiction about freedom that refuses to make home simple.
- Like lyrical prose, sibling devotion and a journey shaped by danger.
- Appreciate stories where survival opens new possibilities but also new losses.
- About The Author
- Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.
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- ISBN
- 9780571378449
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber, (03 September 2026)
- Number of Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
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