num_pages: 311
description: The new novel from the author of The Commitments continues to trace the up-and-down life of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin. Jimmy Rabbitte Senior and his friend Bimbo are miserable until they buy a decrepit fish-and-chip van. The Van follows them as they haul their mobile food outlet through Dublin, one step ahead of the environmental health officers.
language: English
title: The Van
titlecomplete: The Van
genres: Fiction, Humor, Modern, Ireland, Contemporary, Comedy, Irish Literature, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 7201
places: Barrytown
series: The Barrytown Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Viking Books