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Chargement... Where They Were Missed (édition 2006)par Lucy Caldwell (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The author is tackling an extremely tricky…somewhat delicate…subject…but she captures vividly a particularly troubled part of Ireland's past. Her use of Irish myths…some I grew up hearing from my grandmother who left this area in 1926....was a really good part of the book. The stories are entrancing and a great deal about the situation she describes is what relatives that are still there have described and lived through. The book definitely shows that Caldwell was a promising writer and attempts to shed light on an important chronicle in a very dark chapter in Irish history. However it appeared that the authors believed that in order to write tragedy you must spread the misery on as heavily as possible. The only thing it dis was just produce more misery on top of what these people were experiencing at the time. The parts that chronicled Saoirse relationship with her aunt and uncle and her dreams of school and those wonderful Irish myths lightened the atmosphere to some degree but not enough to make the reader come away with any real good feeling…but then this time in Ireland’s history didn’t produce many “good" feelings. If anyone is interested in pursing this bleak subject to more extent… may I recommend Deirdre Madden's [One By One In the Darkness]. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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It is Belfast in the 1980s and Daisy and Saoirse are living through the hottest summer ever. The yard is too hot, their mother keeps flying off the handle and their father doesn't come home until late. Police sirens whine through the streets at night and Daisy asks why they can't have a mural painted on their house like the other houses down the road. As the two girls dream of ice creams from Antonini's, it's clear that their parents are struggling with each other and the political violence outside that is forcing them ever closer together and yet is also smashing them apart. Then, one day, a tragedy occurs and life changes for ever. Ten years later, Saoirse is in Southern Ireland, far from the sadness of her childhood. But there is still an aching absence in her life and soon she will discover that her extended family is holding the secret of what really happened when she left her childhood home. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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