Das Mordopfer: Nina Hardy, Stummfilmstar der 20er Jahre. Der Täter: George, Ninas Jugendfreund, den sie als Gärtner beschäftigt, seit er traumatisiert aus dem Krieg zurück ist. Zum Begräbnis kehrt Ninas Halbbruder Gregory heim und trifft auf Georges Schwester Janie. Sie erinnern sich an ihre Jugendjahre und spüren die Abgründe auf, die zu der Tat führten.
A reimagining of a turning point in Irish, American and European history. The story of Lord Edward Fitzgerald related by Tony Small - the runaway slave who became Lord Edward's manservant and friend.
Very Good plus. Paperback. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor traces of storage and no bumping to corners. 69pp. Script of Neil Jordan's film which won an Oscar for best original screenplay. ISBN 0099327112
'I had been mistaken for him so many times that when he died it was as if part of myself had died too.' Kevin Thunder grew up with a double - a boy so uncannily like him that they were mistaken for each other at every turn. As children in 1960s Dublin, one lived next to Bram Stoker's house, haunted by an imagined Dracula, the other in the more refined spaces of Palmerston Park. Though divided, like the city itself, by background and class, they shared the same smell, the same looks and perhaps, Kevin comes to believe, the same soul. They exchange identities when it suits them, each acting the part of the other one, but as they reach adulthood, what started as a childhood game descends into something more sinister and they discover taking on another's life can lead to darker places than either had imagined. Neil Jordan's long-awaited new novel is an extraordinary achievement - a comedy of manners at the same time as a Gothic tragedy, a thriller and an elegy. It offers imaginative entertainment of the highest order.
A haunting fairytale-like story of love, secrets and second chances, from award-winning film director and author Neil Jordan.
Jonathan is a private detective in a decaying eastern European city. He is drowning in his work, his failing marriage, and the corrupt landscape that surrounds him. One day, he is approached by an elderly couple to investigate the disappearance of their daughter, who has been missing for nearly two decades. Troubled by the faded photograph of a little girl the couple presses on him--she's the same age as his own daughter--he feels compelled to find her. Then one night, as he is contemplating his troubled marriage, he encounters a young woman crouched at the foot of a stone angel on the bridge spanning the river that divides the city, a woman who suddenly jumps into the icy water below. Plunging after her, Jonathan finds himself dragged into her ghostly world of confusion, coincidence, and intrigue, and the city he thought he knew becomes strange, mysterious, and threatening. Combining the language and imagery of film with those of an extremely gifted writer, Neil Jordan has created a haunting novel that intrigues, delights, and surprises with its precise language, sly humor, imaginative range, and narrative flair.
