| Description |
245 pages ; 21 cm |
| Summary |
Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact |
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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." |
| Subject |
Children -- Fiction.
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Children -- Northern Ireland -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Northern Ireland -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116398
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| LC no. |
96049635 |
| ISBN |
0375700234 (Vintage edition) |
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0394574400 |
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