Title : Read at Night - Seamus Deane - Book
Summary :
Was he a hero or a traitor, this uncle Eddie, an IRA volunteer, whose family legend claims he disappeared in 1922 in a distillery explosion?
In Londonderry in the 1950s, the young narrator, the third child in a working-class family of seven, lives under the yoke of this family secret, between a mother closely linked to the mystery and a father kept in ignorance of a truth even more terrible than the one he believes he holds.
It is through fragments that Seamus Deane captures the very essence of a distrustful and troubled era, in a city whose social fabric was torn apart by the bloody conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Vibrant and modest, his novel masterfully blends family sorrows and political violence and offers a lyrical and intimate reading of the "Irish problem."
- EAN: 9782742756780
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