![]() ![]() Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page the family house "as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it." And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend-the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly-reveals its transfixing reality. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. If Issac Babel had been born in Derry, he might have written this sudden, brilliant book."Īlready hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. "A swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking. ![]()
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