The final novel from John McGahern, one of Ireland’s greatest novelists That They May Face the Rising Sun is a powerful and poignant story following Joe and Kate Ruttledge, who have returned from London to live and work among a small, rural, lakeside community near where Joe grew up. Now, deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them, unfolds through the rhythm of work, ritual, and the passing seasons.