Irish crime and thriller writers have made quite a mark in recent years. Now it’s the turn of a new wave of Irish literary novelists. Five debut writers introduce their books DARRAGH McKEON All That Is Solid Melts i nto Air Viking, March Set in a crumbling Soviet Union at the time of the Chernobyl disaster, All That Is Solid Melts into Air follows a group of characters – a doctor, a piano prodigy, a journalist who has been silenced – as they try to cope with the fallout. Darragh McKeon lives in New York. What made you choose this particular story? I grew up in Tullamore, Co Offaly, and Adi Roche’s Chernobyl International brought children from that region to Tullamore for recuperation. They were among the first group of outsiders I had ever encountered, and I was just fascinated. Through them, people would talk about the meltdown. Also, Adi Roche and Ali Hewson made a TV documentary in which they talked to some of the farmers who had refused to lea...
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