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Written by Christopher Nolan - Audio book performed by Fiona Shaw - Abridged Fiction - CASSETTES

Publisher, Time Warner Audiobooks (April 2000)

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Publisher's Weekly says "Truly outstanding." Received their 'Listen Up Award 2000'

"Not able to stand the pressure any longer, Minnie had given into her neighbour's offers and let four fields of grazing to the farmer on the other side of the mearing ditch. Jude Fortune had for ages had her designs on the old woman's place, but she wanted the run of the entire holding. Year after year she suggested the actual terms to her renewing the lease, but her pumice stone had minimal effect on the wodjous woman, Mrs. Minnie O'Brien."

Christopher Nolan published his searing memoir, Under the Eye of the Clock, in 1987 when he was only twenty-one and won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. Now, twelve years later, he has produced The Banyan Tree, an extraordinary story that marks him as a powerful, unique voice in contemporary literature.

Covering the eighty-plus years in the life of Minnie O'Brien, a woman bound to take her place in Irish literature next to Joyce's Molly Bloom, The Banyan Tree is a beautiful saga of rural Ireland spanning most of the twentieth century. In richly-layered prose, Nolan lovingly details the life and times of a spirited woman who struggles to keep the five fields left to her by her husband for the day when her prodigal younger son, astray somewhere in America, will surely return to claim them. Colorful, feisty, filled with love and humor, The Banyan Tree is sure to be an audio classic.

For anyone who loves Ireland and the Irish.