Every One Still Here. Stories (en Inglés) - Liadan Ní Chuinn

A searching, incisive, and profound debut collection of stories about people—mothers, fathers, sons, strangers, sisters—living in the aftermath of violence.

What good is it to know what things are, what lies beneath the appearance of them? It is nothing until it is stated. It is nothing if it is not named. It is just blood, like you have never seen before.

A young man studying anatomy looks at a cadaver. Flowers are found, left in bouquets, all over a museum. A mother dies, leaving a stain on the carpet: whether or not anyone acknowledges it, they know it’s there.

The searching and clear-eyed stories in Every One Still Here are set in Ireland under British occupation, a place where the past, grief, and guilt thrum behind every surface and refuse to stay buried. Liadan Ní Chuinn is a debut writer of uncommon power, clarity, and precision, whose characters in Every One Still Here stay lodged within us long after we leave them.

Early Praise for Every One Still Here
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“This is a brilliant and remarkable book, a collection of six short stories by a debut writer that immediately asks to be considered among this island’s signal 21st-century literary achievements. These stories open out and close again in strange folds and planes. They operate like some theoretical shape in geometry that has more surfaces than are physically possible . . . Superb.”
—Kevin Power, The Irish Times

“Astonishing . . . The writing here is stark, unflinching, bald. It feels genuinely new. I get the feeling that Ní Chuinn would hate the term ‘voice of a generation’, but it may be foisted on them nonetheless—and with good reason.”
—Laura Hackett, The Sunday Times

“Ní Chuinn’s writing is often terse, blunt, its subject matter better served by urgency than elegance . . . A writer of subtlety . . . Ní Chuinn's stories are unpredictable and memorable . . . They describe entanglements that cannot be ignored or consigned to history. Extraordinary.”
—Chris Power, The Guardian

“Reading Ní Chuinn’s work, one thing quickly becomes clear: this is a phenomenal debut... Ní Chuinn’s prose is austere and precise . . . This is heart-stopping writing.”
—Sophie Dickinson, The Observer