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"Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s." "The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend - the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly - reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house "as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it."" "Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact."--BOOK JACKET
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Reading in the Dark, Seamus Deane
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
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- Titel
- Reading in the Dark
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Seamus Deane
- Verlag
- Vintage
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1998
- Einband
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0394574400
- ISBN13
- 9780394574400
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Kurzgeschichten, Erwachsenwerden, Literarische Fiktion, Irland, Irische Literatur, Nordirland, 40er-50er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts, Nordirische Literatur
- Originaltitel
- Reading in the dark
- Bewertung
- 3,75 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- "Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s." "The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend - the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly - reveals its transfixing reality. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again; the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page; the family house "as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it."" "Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact."--BOOK JACKET