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Each day of 2015 Jan Carson wrote a short story on the back of a postcard and mailed it to a friend. Each of these tiny stories was inspired by an event, an overheard conversation, a piece of art or just a fleeting glance of something worth thinking about further.
Collected in one volume, Carson's postcards present a panoramic view of contemporary Belfast -- its coffee shops, streets and museums and airports -- and offer it to the wider world. Even as they seem to spring from a writer's solitary perspective, taken together, these observations and their distribution speak of human connectedness. Like a pleasant surprise in the mail, this collection reminds us how many friendships are born and strengthened in a story shared.
Illustrated by Benjamin Phillips.

En los barrios protestantes del este de Belfast, basta una chispa para que todo vuelva a explotar como en los a?os del conflicto. En este junio sofocante, la decisi?n del ayuntamiento de limitar la altura de las hogueras del solsticio de verano provoca un imprevisto estallido de furia. Las calles arden de nuevo y el antiguo paramilitar unionista Sammy Agnew ve con profunda preocupaci?n c?mo su hijo se inicia en sus mismos rituales de violencia.Al mismo tiempo, el pusil?nime doctor Jonathan Murray acude a una urgencia en Belfast Este y se encuentra con una sirena —una embaucadora de incautos, de voz magn?tica—, retozando zalamera en la ba?era. De su fugaz encuentro nacer? Sophie, una preciosa ni?a al cuidado del m?dico tras la desaparici?n de la mujer mitol?gica. Buscando ayuda para afrontar su imprevista paternidad de una criatura supuestamente medio humana, Jonathan descubrir? a los Ni?os Desdichados, una asociaci?n de familias de cr?os con capacidades inveros?miles. Al parecer, Belfast est? llena de ni?os voladores…La norirlandesa Jan Carson gan? el Premio de Literatura de la Uni?n Europea con esta impactante novela sobre las cargas de la paternidad y las heridas no cerradas, en la que un realismo crudo y violento se entremezcla con otro m?gico e hilarante.

Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems.
Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too.
The city is in flames and the authorities are losing control. As matters fall into frenzy, and as the lines between fantasy and truth, right and wrong, begin to blur, who will these two fathers choose to protect?
Dark, propulsive and thrillingly original, this tale of fierce familial love and sacrifice fizzes with magic and wonder.

Children's Children is a collection of fifteen short stories which cast a darkly humorous and oftentimes acidic eye, over life in post-conflict Northern Ireland. The stories contained in the collection are an eclectic selection of pieces which vary from traditional literary fiction to magic realism and subtle experiments with the short story form. They deal with the theme of legacy; the achievements, issues and problems this generation has inherited from the previous. Disillusioned street preachers, adulterous grocery shoppers, robotic brothers and child burglars are all given voice to express their experiences of life in contemporary Northern Ireland as Carson blurs the line between social commentary and modern parable.

Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter might not be as harmless as she seems.

Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too.

The city is in flames and the authorities are losing control. As matters fall into frenzy, and as the lines between fantasy and truth, right and wrong, begin to blur, who will these two fathers choose to protect?

Dark, propulsive and thrillingly original, this tale of fierce familial love and sacrifice fizzes with magic and wonder.