Five top books from Ireland's newer voices

One title on the Barnes & Noble Review's list of five top books from Ireland's newer voices:
The Sea
by John Banville

Upon The Sea's capture of the 2005 Man Booker Prize, author John Banville told reporters he had unabashedly set out to create a work of art: the results verify this to be no overstatement. A mercurial novel interweaving three timelines -- at times within the same sentence -- The