© Actes Sud, 2010
The Third Party follows a day in the life of an unnamed Belfast sales representative on a business trip to Hiroshima. As he meets clients and explores the city, a series of flashbacks uncover the businessman’s past which is not quite as hygienic as the product he’s selling. Then he encounters Ike, a fellow traveller from Belfast and writer, who just happens to be in Japan to give a reading from his latest book at the university on the edge of town. Bristling with taut psychological energy, this novel is a knowing and powerful exploration of death, guilt and the legacies of war, and a surreal journey where old and new, and east and west collide – a journey to the bitter end; an end that has already begun.
Blackstaff Press 2007
Translated into: French
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