Troubles

Winner of the Lost Man Booker Prize A sad, tragic, and darkly funny “tour-de-force” about the Irish war for independence, set at a crumbling hotel on the western coast of Ireland ( Guardian ) 1919: After surviving the Great War, Major Brendan Archer makes his way to Ireland, hoping to discover whether he is indeed betrothed to Angela Spencer, whose Anglo-Irish family owns the once-aptly-named Majestic Hotel in Kilnalough. But his fiancée is strangely altered and her family’s fortunes have suffer