Órfhlaith Ni Chonaill's novel, The Man With No Skin was published in June 2005 by Dialogue Publishing Inc., Colorado, USA.

The Man With No Skin:
When Father Ciarán O'Sullivan is viciously attacked in his home and left for dead, he realizes that his life has been a waste. As a priest in the village of Kishagi, on the slopes of Mount Kenya, he has tried to be both divine and human, and failed at both.
As he finds his way back from the limbo lands between living and dying, he accepts he has much to learn about himself, and more to learn from and about the people he has presumed to serve.
This is a journey of love, hatred, jealousy, and forgiveness in a place at the center of the whirlpool of differing cultures and beliefs.



Praise for The Man With No Skin:

'Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill puts the reader in the center of the world as it now exists: raw and breathtakingly beautiful; violent and unutterably tender. The Man With No Skin will change you. Ordinary lives in Africa today-a black gardener, a white "Mama", an Irish priest, a black African woman-here become a tapestry before which we see our own skins, and what they signify in a world of AIDS and other terrors. Between the Christian god and Ngai, the god of the mountain, Ní Chonaill allows us to find our own way toward something like revelation.' - Pat Schneider.

'A powerful novel' - Irish Emigrant Review

'Fast paced and very well written' -Fearless Books

'A small book, beautifully written; a large message lovingly tendered' - Madge Walls.

'The Man With No Skin is an absorbing story, ranging from Kenya to Cape Clear. Although it's only Órfhlaith's first novel, it carries big ideas with the deceptive ease of JM Coetzee's Disgrace, but has the same eye for local African colour as Alexander McCall Smith in his comic classic, The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency. Mark my words, this novel is going to go to Oprah and beyond.' - Eoghan Harris, Sunday Independent.

The Man With No Skin is available in bookshops in Sligo but has not yet been released throughout Ireland. It is also available from the website: www.themanwithnoskin.com and www.amazon.com.

Click here to hear an excerpt from The Man With No Skin, read by Órfhlaith Ní Chonaill.