Irish Literature
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Paul Lynch has described his novel as “an attempt at radical empathy”. He does that by recreating in a developed, Western country, the kind of sense of impermanence and political instability that is usually reserved for countries in other areas of the planet – from the Global South to the Middle East.
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Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting is one of those novels that you must sit with for a while. When I finished reading it, I wasn’t even absolutely sure whether I could say that I had liked it or not, or if it came down to those terms at all.
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Hailed as the literary event of the year, the publication of Intermezzo was preceded by a massive marketing campaign. It included the standard sending of advanced reader copies to online content creators and journalists as well as the publication of excerpts from the novel to build anticipation.
