Helpfully for this article, this book is set on an island, in the South China Seas ... with its sudden truth and its originality. Sebastian Barry’s The Secret Scripture is one of the 20 titles ...

But Kevin Barry, who rendered a pointillistic gangland ... In his stealthy and shimmering new story collection, “Dark Lies the Island,” a couple of tut-tutting women, clad in the harmless ...

Dark Lies the Island is Irish writer Kevin Barry’s second collection of stories — and his first book following his win of this year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his debut ...