Topographia Hibernica av Blindboyboatclub

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<p><i>You don''t fully appreciate how large a donkey''s head is until it''s beside you in a Fiat Punto. The view in my mirror was furry and violent. I was driving blind.</i><br><br>Driving with a donkey stuffed in the back seat; jackdaws pecking brains out through the roof of a confessional box; cat piss and astronauts. This is the world not as you see it, but as it is, twisted from the maverick mind of Blindboy Boatclub.<br><br>These are stories of the strange unsettlings in the souls of men caught in between the past and the possible; stories of heart-blinding rage and disquieting compassion.<br><br>Taking its title from a twelfth-century English manuscript of the same name, which dehumanised the people and culture of Ireland to facilitate domination, <i>Topographia Hibernica</i> is a collection that unravels the knotted threads of humanity, nature and colonisation from a contemporary Irish perspective.<br><br>Called ''one of the most gifted writers of his generation'' by the <i>Iris