They strike up a conversation with two other women whose English skills aren't quite developed.
Maurice and Charlie accost a young man who they think might know Dilly, casually terrorizing him in search of information on the woman's whereabouts. The opening pages of the book find Maurice and Charlie, both in their 50s and worse for wear, sitting on a bench in the Algeciras ferry station: "Two Irishmen sombre in the dank light of the terminal make gestures of long-sufferance and woe - they are born to such gestures, and offer them easily." The two men are there looking for Maurice's estranged daughter, Dilly a 23-year-old "dreadlock Rastafari." They've heard the young woman, who runs with a crowd of similarly-maned hippies, is due at the station, either leaving for Tangier or returning from there.īarry's a remarkable sentence-level writer who's capable of extraordinary turns of phrase. "It reeks of tired bodies, and dread." The Alhambra it's not, but it's a fitting setting for Barry's dark, haunting novel. "Oh, and this is as awful a place as you could muster - you'd want the eyes sideways in your head," Barry writes. It's not the kind of place you'd likely choose to while away the hours. They're spending all their time in the city's dingy ferry terminal, along with a mass of weary travelers and a handful of bored employees. But Maurice Hearne and Charlie Redmond, the two aging Irish men at the heart of Kevin Barry's Night Boat to Tangier, aren't interested in any of that.
The Spanish port city of Algeciras boasts a long and rich history, and is home to some of the country's most beautiful parks, plazas and churches.
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