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Dara Kavanagh

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in Dublin, Ireland

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Joseph Roth; Anton Szerb; Hans Fallada; Bruno Schultz

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Dara Kavanagh is a writer, academic, translator and poet. A native of Dublin, he spent more than a decade working in Africa, Australia and Latin America before returning to settle in Ireland.

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Average rating: 4.55 · 64 ratings · 45 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Prague 1938 4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Scorched Earth 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2025	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Dara Kavanagh rated a book really liked it The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is a fascinating and beautifully written portrait of 1860s Sicily, set at the time of the project to unite Italy. A historical-realist novel a la Turgenev, it's odd that occasional 1950s intrusions mar the text - eg, a comparison to modern jet t ...more
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Dara Kavanagh rated a book it was amazing Scorched Earth by Dara Kavanagh (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The 5 Stars are based on the following: "Dara Kavanagh’s Scorched Earth looks at the atrocities of war committed by a colonial power, and how the perpetrators of war crimes dismiss their own criminality while scapegoating those who respond to the horr ...more
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Dara Kavanagh rated a book it was amazing The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3) by Philip Roth	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A fascinating novel. It's worth reading just for the final, astonishing scene. Instead of the expected encounter between Nathan Zuckerman and Coleman's disillusioned brother, Walt, we get a 15 page treatise on ice-fishing delivered by troubled Vietnam ...more
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Dara Kavanagh rated a book really liked it A Heart So White by Javier Marías	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This is very much a novel in the continental tradition, 'philosophical' in the way that the novels of Sartre are, or Sebald. The meandering sentences, with qualifying clauses accumulating using only the comma as punctuation, recall Jose Saramago more ...more
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Dara Kavanagh rated a book it was amazing Take Six: Six Irish Women Writers by Tanya Farrelly (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A strong and varied selection, from six of our more underrated women writers.
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Dara Kavanagh rated a book really liked it White Spirits by David Butler (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4 Stars based on this thorough review in Books Ireland: https://booksirelandmagazine.com/whit... ...more
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