num_pages: 240
description: You will be astounded by the hugeness of his heart and by the breadth and depth of his vision. O'Neill is a writer of limitless imagination. Hector Tobar author of The Barbarian NurseriesRanging from Australia and Africa to Europe and Asia and back again The Weight of a Human Heart heralds a fresh and important new voice in fiction. Ryan O'Neill takes us on a journey that is sometimes comic sometimes tragic and wholly original.A young Tutsi girl flees her village on the brink of the Rwandan genocide. A literary dueland an affairplay out in the book review section of a national newspaper. A young girl learns her mothers disturbing secrets through the broken key on a typewriter. With imagination wit and a keen eye Ryan O'Neill draws the essence of the human experience with a cast of characters who stick with you long after you turn the last page of this brilliant short story collection.
language: English
title: The Weight of a Human Heart
publisher: St. Martin's Press