Colum McCann: McCann, C: Everything in This Country Must
McCann, C: Everything in This Country Must
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EUR 19,93*
- Henry Holt & Company, 09/2024
- Einband: Flexibler Einband
- ISBN-13: 9781250396112
- Bestellnummer: 11964544
- Gewicht: 454 g
- Maße: 210 x 137 mm
- Stärke: 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 24.9.2024
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An early collection by the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin and ApeirogonThis devastating early collection from Colum McCann finds the National Book Award-winning author of Let the Great World Spin already exploring one of his most enduring themes: the reverberations of political violence in individual lives.
The setting is McCann's native Ireland in the time of the Troubles, a conflict that manifests both brutally and subtly in everyday life. In the title story, a teenage girl struggles to reconcile her gratitude to the British soldiers who saved the family's horse with her Catholic upbringing. "Wood," which first appeared in The New Yorker, depicts a boy attempting to help the Protestants under the nose of his blind, disapproving father. And in solidarity with his uncle, an imprisoned confederate of Bobby Sands, the teenage narrator of "Hunger Strike" mounts a resistance of his own.
Each story displays McCann's unique ability to capture the costs, emotional and psychological as well as physical, of violence, and reminds readers why he's been lauded as "one of the most compassionate writers alive" (Air Mail).