Mint & Other StoriesThese skilled portraits form chapters in a mans life. He knows the characters in Dublin, the West of Ireland, London, provincial England and they know him. The descriptions are intimate, sympathetic; their lives are sharply drawn. A young Muslim woman moves to a Dublin street; a married man meets a married woman to make up for a failed night of their youth; a friend keeps a window open to remind herself that suicide is available. Through each story we

The book is now recognized as a classic of spiritual writing

SET IN DUBLIN’S LIBERTIES

political and cultural change

culture and the Irish language

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One reviewer wrote: ‘Why did Chalandon choose to write a novel rather than a documentary

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and in 1957 she founded the literary magazine Threshold

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