Days Without End

From the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist Sebastian Barry comes a powerful and unforgettable new novel chronicling a young Irish immigrant s army years in the American Indian and Civil wars.
Thomas McNulty, having fled the Great Famine in Ireland and aged barely seventeen, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s, and with his brother in arms, John Cole, goes on to fight in the Indian Wars against the Sioux and the Yurok and ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships themselves, they find these days to be vivid and alive, despite the horrors they see and are complicit in.
Moving from the plains of Wyoming to Tennessee, Sebastian Barry s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. An intensely poignant story of two men and the makeshift family they create with a young Sioux girl, Winona, " Days Without End" is a fresh and haunting portrait of the most fateful years in American history and is a novel never to be forgotten."