Title : Transatlantic - Colum McCann - book
Summary :
After the immense success of And as the wide world continues its mad dash, McCann returns with his most ambitious, most masterful, most accomplished novel. Drawing on an impressive construction of ingenuity and mastery, the author builds a bridge across the Atlantic, between America and Ireland, from the 19th century to the present day. Blending history and fiction, this is a dazzling work about uprooting, loss, and self-improvement.
After And let the wide world continue its mad dash, the great return of Colum McCann. Drawing on an impressive construction of ingenuity and mastery, the author builds a bridge across the Atlantic, between America and Ireland, from the 19th century to the present day. Blending history and fiction, a dizzying fresco of haunting beauty.
In Dublin in 1845, seventeen-year-old servant Lily Duggan meets the gaze of Frederick Douglass, the Dark Dandy, the runaway slave, the first to bear witness to the absolute horror in his memoirs.
That day, Lily understands that she must change her life and embarks for the New World, thus changing her destiny and that of her descendants, over four generations.
In Dublin, 150 years later, Hannah, his great-granddaughter, tries to draw from the story of her ancestors the strength to survive loss and loneliness.
"This is what interests Colum McCann: at the heart of violence, lives lived in spite of everything; these invisible skeins that intertwine places, times and characters; this way the past has of resurfacing in the strangest way possible."
Publishers Weekly
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EAN : 9782714450074
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