On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son Liam are working on the great Ordnance Survey project to map all of Ireland. It is 1865, and the work is being carried out in a country still marked by the devastation of the Great Hunger.
This novel is a delicate balance of light and shadow throughout.
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one.
Title: Land Hardcover by O'Farrell, Maggie. Author: O'Farrell, Maggie. Format: Hardcover. Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group. 📦 Fast Dispatch! Publication Date: 2026.
I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies.”. —Daniel Mason, author of North WoodsOn a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland.
Author: Maggie O'Farrell. Format: Hardback. Subtitle: A Novel. Title: Land. Item Width: 33mm. Item Length: 169mm. Item Height: 243mm. Country/Region of Manufacture: US.
Notes: First edition. 2026 Hard Cover. 383, [1] pp. On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomas and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland.