![]() As they dig, a pinhole opens in the muck above the sandhogs’ heads. The novel opens in 1915, among a crew of four “sandhogs,” laborers working to build a subway tunnel deep under the East River in New York City. He is best known for Let the Great World Spin, which won the National Book Award in 2009. Hailed as a “haunting novel, by a writer emerging as a major talent” ( Kirkus Reviews), This Side of Brightness marked a breakthrough for McCann, now regarded as one of Ireland’s most important living writers. ![]() Its two parallel narratives follow Nathan Walker, an African-American man who comes to New York in 1915 to join the crews building subway tunnels under the city, and Treefrog, a homeless man who in the 1980s makes his home in the rafters of one of those tunnels. This Side of Brightness is a 1998 novel by New York-based Irish novelist Colum McCann. ![]()
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