Title : Chimeras - Nuala O'Faolain - book
Summary :
With Chimeras, Nuala O'Faolain confirms her formidable talent as a storyteller. When she takes on the fate of Kathleen de Burca, who returns to Ireland to investigate a case of adultery that occurred in the 19th century, she brings to light from her oppressed Irish conscience intimate and historical tragedies, while at the same time evoking the nagging questions of exile, solitude, sexuality, and the illusions of love. Because passion is the great issue of her life, Kathleen wants to write about the scandal that arose, shortly after the Great Famine, from the affair between an English aristocrat and her Irish groom. But her research insidiously confronts her with her own past: in a back-and-forth between the Ireland of 1850 and that of her childhood, she highlights the inevitabilities of history, far from discovering the recipes for this romantic love. This novel invites us on a real-life journey to an Ireland that the narrator left to escape family unhappiness and that she learns by listening to simple joys, soothing beings, and an enchanting nature. It is also a journey to the heart of the identity of a woman of today, the moving Kathleen de Burca. The lucidity and tenderness that characterize Nuala O'Faolain's writing give strength and richness to a book whose outcome is as unexpected as it is magnificent.
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EAN : 9782848050164
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