Dublin Palms - Couverture souple

Hamilton, Hugo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 000812812X ISBN 13 : 9780008128128

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2019

Synopsis

The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them rattling in the wind. The narrator of Dublin Palms has returned to Dublin to set up home with his partner Helen and their two children. Their lives are filled with optimism, but also a sense of dislocation. Overshadowed by the Troubles in the North, their family enterprise begins to come apart. As the creditors line up to be paid, they must consider leaving everything behind. What will they gain when they stand to lose all? In this spectacular novel from the author of The Speckled People, a family tries to hold on in a falling world. It is a powerful story of fragmentation and belonging, of emigrants and people returning home.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hugo Hamilton is the author of a bestselling memoir, The Speckled People, the story of his German-Irish childhood in Dublin, where he was prohibited by his revolutionary father from speaking English. He has written nine novels, two memoirs, a collection of short stories and three stage plays. His work has won international awards, including the French Prix Femina etranger, the Italian premio Giuseppe Berto and DAAD scholarship in Berlin. Hamilton is a member of Aosdana and lives in Dublin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 000812812X
• ISBN 13: 9780008128128
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible