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Readers may be interested in the following books, which have been added to stock at Galway City Library:

Written in Water: Prose Poems, by Luis Cernuda.

Desire and its relationship to love and reality; the hopeless search for wholeness and a yearning for oblivion; and a keen appreciation of the transcendent mystery of nature are all recurring themes in the work of Luis Cernuda. Cernuda directs his gaze inwardly, to the raw truth of his longings and desires, and he arrests time by capturing the ephemeral but eternal instants when desire and the world are one. This is s a book of vivid evocations, vignettes and reflections.

The Painter’s Wife, by Monique Durand

Enraptured by a deep affinity for the arts, young Evelyn is determined to escape her dysfunctional family in Montreal through her work in the fashion industry. Feeling trapped in the stifling confines of her petit bourgeois 1940’s existence, she runs away to New York destined to become a rich and famous fashion illustrator. There, in Central Park, she falls helplessly in love with René, a talented and tormented painter who is both constantly seeking and rejecting recognition and success. The book is written in a language as brilliant and intense as the mercurial lives of its completely contradictory characters.

Cardo Mariano is a successful Italian writer afflicted with a typical male problem: fear of commitment. When Sol, Cardo's pregnant lover, uncovers his dalliance with another woman, she makes the decision to return to Norway while Cardo remains in Italy to confront his issues. Cardo sorts out his past by writing, first through e-mails, to Sol, then through an upcoming novel loosely based on his own childhood. Upon returning to Sol, he finds the forgiveness and the stability he has always sought. This is an extremely engaging story about fear and longing, about creating a new life from the ashes of an old one, revealing that the answers we seek are often right in front of us.

We invite you to visit your library in Athenry, Ballinasloe, Ballygar, Carraroe, Clifden, Dunmore, Eyrecourt, Glenamaddy, Gort, Headford, Inishbofin, Inisheer, Inismeain, Killimor, Kilronan, Leenane, Letterfrack, Loughrea, Moylough, Oranmore, Oughterard, Portumna, Roundstone, Spiddal, Tiernea, Tuam, Westside, Woodford, and the Mobile Library.

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