Tom Phelan Bücher
Tom Phelan bringt eine rohe Ehrlichkeit und tiefe Sensibilität in die Literatur ein und befasst sich mit den komplexen Themen des irischen Lebens. Seine Romane untersuchen die bleibenden Auswirkungen alter Feindseligkeiten, das Leben zurückgekehrter Auswanderer und die alltäglichen Realitäten ländlicher irischer Gemeinschaften. Phelans Prosa, oft als schlichte Schönheit und detailreich beschrieben, fängt die Essenz einer vergangenen ländlichen Welt mit außergewöhnlicher Sensibilität ein. Sein Schreiben zeugt von Widerstandsfähigkeit, Erinnerung und der Suche nach Sinn in einer komplexen Existenz.
We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It
- 224 Seiten
- 8 Lesestunden
“You don’t have to be Irish to cherish this literary gift—just being human and curious and from a family will suffice.” —Malachy McCourt, New York Times bestselling author of A Monk Swimming In the tradition of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and Alice Taylor’s To School Through the Fields, Tom Phelan’s We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It is a heartfelt and masterfully written memoir of growing up in Ireland in the 1940s. Tom Phelan, who was born and raised in County Laois in the Irish midlands, spent his formative years working with his wise and demanding father as he sought to wrest a livelihood from a farm that was often wet, muddy, and back-breaking. It was a time before rural electrification, the telephone, and indoor plumbing; a time when the main modes of travel were bicycle and animal cart; a time when small farmers struggled to survive and turkey eggs were hatched in the kitchen cupboard; a time when the Church exerted enormous control over Ireland. We Were Rich and We Didn’t Know It recounts Tom’s upbringing in an isolated, rural community from the day he was delivered by the local midwife. With tears and laughter, it speaks to the strength of the human spirit in the face of life’s adversities.
