Finnegans Wake is Joyce's last book, written over many years and published in 1928 in parts before its full release. It is a work of experimental fiction told in a dreamlike language built from puns, borrowed words and many tongues. Its setting is Dublin and its surroundings, and its recurring figures include a family: a father, a mother, and their children, whose names and roles shift and echo.
There is no ordinary plot. The book plays with sleep, history, myth and the cycles of human life. It is famously hard, but it can be enjoyed aloud for its music and humour, and it stands as one of the most radical experiments in literature.