The Little Book of Judas

The Book of Judas, Brendan Kennellys 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, was the number one bestselling book in Ireland. The Little Book of Judas is a distillation of that literary monster, purged to its traitorous essence. But Judas never goes away. He continued to worm his way into Kennellys imagination long after the original book was finished, and The Little Book of Judas includes some damning new revelations from the eternal scapegoat and outcast. Not merely lost but irredeemable, Kennellys bitterly articulate Judas speaks, dreams and murmurs of past and present, history and myth, good and evil, of men, women and children, and of course money until we realise that the unspeakable perpetrator of the apparently unthinkable, in penetrating the icy reaches of his own world, becomes a sly, many-voiced critic of ours.