Month: June 2024

Where to order Here Comes Everybody’s Karma

This is the preferred channel of many bookshops to order their books. The retail price is £ 39.12 (or 49 euro), but bookshops get a special wholesale discount. Private people who don’t live in the UK should not order through this channel since the sale will be subject of an import duty. We advise private customers outside the UK to place their orders with their local bookshop since bookshops can deduct the import duty from the VAT that they have to charge on every product they sell.

Here Comes Everybody’s Karma

Print ISBN 978-1-7377832-9-9

Print Information

Edit Trim Size : 8.250″ x 11.000″ (280mm x 210mm)Interior Color and Paper

Color: Color 70Binding

Paperback: Perfect BoundCover Finish

MattePage Count: 568

Spine Width : 1.54348 in (39.20 mm)

Weight: 3.754 lb (1702.78 g)

This is the preferred channel for people who like to order their books online. It should however be noted that the retail price is the same as the price in the bookshops ($49).

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0D32BN9PP
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 566 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8324434571
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.28 x 11 inches

Price 49 $

Links for customers worldwide:

US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D32BN9PP

UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D32BN9PP : Price BP 39.12

ES: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0D32BN9PP Price 47,27 euros

CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0D32BN9PP Price: $ 67,02

AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0D32BN9PP Price 109.02

Customers in Ireland qualify for standard free delivery, but are advised against placing their order in the UK due to custom regulations. Place your order instead through your local bookshop or with Amazon Spain.


Last heads up.

In the last straight line towards the launch of this retelling of Finnegans Wake, I wish to remind all interested parties that on the 11th of June of 2024 “Here Comes Everybody’s Karma” will be launched at the Hole in the Wall Pub nearby Phoenix Park in Dublin between 6 – 8pm.

For those interested I offer a video link that gives a short presentation of this book. Just click on the cover below this text.

About The Hole in the Wall.

On page 69 of Finnegans Wake we read:

“Now by memory inspired, turn wheel again to the whole of the wall. Where Gyant Blyant fronts Peannlueamoore There was once upon a wall and a hooghoog wall a was and such a wall- hole did exist.”, transcribed in HCEK p. 85 as: “Once, inspired by memory, turn the wheel again to witness the grandeur of the entire wall. Where Tyrant Blunt confronts Penn-lie-more, there once existed a majestic, towering wall, adorned with a magnificent wall hole.”

These fragments are referring to a very real pub in the vicinity of Phoenix Park, known as The Hole in the Wall (formerly known as Black Horse Tavern). The Hole in the Wall pub is located in the district of Ashtown just north of Phoenix Park, and the phrase “turn wheel again” refers to the turnstile (or turnpike) set in a hole in the adjacent Phoenix Park wall.

In Finnegans Wake, the door serves as a threshold between wakefulness and deep sleep, symbolizing a gateway. The book itself is likened to a door or gate, with Joyce’s sigla resembling a portal. The gate is guarded by two giant pencils, reminiscent of obelisks, which represent duality and harmony in Egyptian culture. This duality mirrors the themes of unity and opposites present in Finnegans Wake which this publication places into the context of Dharma and Karma, which are cyclical Asiatic philosophical principles.

The Lithuanian artist Benediktas Gylys gave recently this Joycean gate theme a modern interpretation by installing next to the writer’s statue in Dublin an audiovisual live-link that connects it to New York.

The portal is set to become a fixture of Dublin’s streetscape throughout the summer and runs until the autumn. In the coming months, there will be cultural performances at each city’s portal to be enjoyed by people in the other city via the livestream. From July, the Dublin portal will also connect to other global city destinations in Poland, Brazil and Lithuania.

Though it might, from a commercial point of view, not be the wisest decision to launch a book in a pub instead of in a book store, the choice of this location wants to illustrate how the novel is embedded in the local folklore and its surrounding area.

On the 11th of June of 2024 “Here Comes Everybody’s Karma” will be launched at the Hole in the Wall Pub nearby Phoenix Park in Dublin between 6 – 8pm.