Return to Killybegs - Couverture souple

Chalandon, Sorj

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184351320X ISBN 13 : 9781843513209

Editeur : The Lilliput Press Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

Tyrone Meehan, damned as an informer, ekes out his days in Donegal, awaiting his killers. ‘Now that everything is out in the open, they will all speak in my place – the IRA, the British, my family, my close friends, journalists I’ve never even met. Some of them will go so far as to explain how and why I ended up a traitor … Do not trust my enemies, and even less my friends. Ignore those who will say they knew me. Nobody has ever walked in my shoes, nobody. The only reason I’m talking today is because I am the only one who can tell the truth. After I’m gone, I hope for silence.’ Return to Killybegs is the story of a traitor to Belfast’s Catholic community, emerging from the white heat of a prolonged war during the 1970s and 1980s in Northern Ireland. This powerful work, lauded by critics, shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and awarded the Grand Prix de Roman de l’Académie Française, deals with a subject that touches a nerve for most Irish people: the all-too-human circumstances of betrayal and survival. It is an extraordinary and affecting read.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

SORJ CHALANDON is a journalist and novelist who spent formative years on assignment in Northern Ireland as a reporter for Liberation during the Troubles. My Traitor was first published to acclaim in France in 2007 and won five prizes in its first year, including the Prix Joseph Kessel and the Prix Jean Freustie.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Lilliput Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184351320X
• ISBN 13: 9781843513209
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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