{"product_id":"kala-9780593470022","title":"Kala","description":"\u003cb\u003eONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 - INSTANT IRISH TIMES #1 BESTSELLER - ONE OF \u003ci\u003eELECTRIC LITERATURE'S \u003c\/i\u003eMOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE YEAR - \"A spectacular read for Donna Tartt and Tana French fans.\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review), this gripping literary page-turner traces the lives of former friends, estranged for fifteen years, as they reckon with the terrifying events of the summer that changed their lives. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A master class in building suspense...Walsh manages a deft balance between adolescent angst and ecstasy -- discoveries bringing horror, sorrow and joy -- and the more deliberate, often elegiac reflections of adulthood, reckoning with the promises of the past.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the seaside town of Kinlough, on Ireland's west coast, three old friends are thrown together for the first time in years. Helen, Joe, and Mushwere part of an original group of six inseparable teenagers in the summer of 2003, with motherless, reckless Kala Lanann as their group's white-hot center. Soon after that summer's peak, Kala disappeared without a trace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow it's fifteen years later. Helen has reluctantly returned to Ireland for her father's wedding; Joe is a world-famous musician, newly back in town; and Mush has never left, too scared to venture beyond the counter of his mother's caf�. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut human remains have been discovered in the woods. Two more girls have gone missing. As past and present begin to collide, the estranged friends are forced to confront their own complicity in the events that led to Kala's disappearance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgainst the backdrop of a town suffocating on its own secrets, in a story that builds from a smolder to a stunning climax, \u003ci\u003eKala\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly examines the sometimes brutal costs of belonging, as well as the battle in the human heart between vengeance and forgiveness, despair and redemption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCOLIN WALSH\u003c\/b\u003e's short stories have won several awards, including the RT? Francis MacManus Short Story Prize and the Hennessy Literary Award. In 2019 he was named Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year. His writing has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Stinging Fly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/i\u003e and broadcast on RT? Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4. \u003ci\u003eKala\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel. He is from Galway and lives in Belgium.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591661555986,"sku":"9780593470022","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_30672cca-c271-49a8-9df9-73f01a4f0d02.jpg?v=1748525123","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/kala-9780593470022","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}