The debut novel from National Book Award winner and Booker nominee Colum McCann



"Colum McCann conjures a hugely inventive debut" Observer



"McCann writes equally well about Ireland, America and Mexico, and he links past and present in a finely woven narrative: Songdogs is a vivid, beautifully measured book" Sunday Times

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Colum McCann"s first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico.



The story is told in the words of the photographer"s only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father"s unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.