Eureka Street

"FINE OLD COUNTRY, RECENTLY PARTITIONED. IN NEED OF MINOR POLITICAL REPAIR. PRICED FOR QUICK SALE." Now available in paperback, Robert McLiam Wilson's clever and irreverent novel Eureka Street is a conflicted yet loving hymn to the "yobs and snobs" of his native Belfast, a city determined to survive the worst it can do to itself. In the lull between cease-fires, Protestant Jake Jackson and Catholic Chuckie Lurgan try to carve out lives for themselves in the battlefield they call home. Comic, indolent Chuckie stumbles upon wealth and romance through a series of hilarious misadventures, while educated Jake abases himself with menial work and searches for his lost love in the eyes of every woman he meets. But even as Jake and Chuckie finally lay claim to their own lives, pent-up prejudice, paranoia, and sectarian passions slowly build to a terrorist act that captures the horror, pointlessness, and sheer brutality of the conflict in Northern Ireland.