Famine, one of the bestselling Irish novels of all time, is the story of three generations of the Kilmartin family during the Great Famine of the 1840s. It is a masterly novel, rich in language, character & plot-a panoramic story of passion, tragedy & resilience. "O'Flaherty is the most heroic of Irish novelists, the one who has always tackled big themes, & in one case, in this great novel, succeeded in writing something imperishable."-John Broderick, Irish Times