The Cruelty Men (eBook)

Emer Martin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
448 Seiten
The Lilliput Press (Verlag)
978-1-84351-762-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Abandoned by her parents when they resettle in Meath, Mary O Conaill faces the task of raising her younger siblings alone. Padraig is disappeared, Seán joins the Christian Brothers, Bridget escapes and her brother Seamus inherits the farm. Maeve is sent to serve a family of shopkeepers in the local town. Later, pregnant and unwed, she is placed in a Magdalene Laundry where her twins are forcibly removed. Spanning the 1930s to the 70s, this sweeping multi-generational family saga follows the psychic and physical displacement of a society in freefall after independence. Wit, poetic nuance, vitality and authenticity inhabit this remarkable novel. The Cruelty Men tells an unsentimental tale of survival in a country proclaimed as independent but subjugated by silence

Autor

Emer Martin is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East and the USA. Her first novel, Breakfast in Babylon, won Listowel Book of the Year in 1996. More Bread or I'll Appear, her second, was published internationally in 1999. Her third novel, Baby Zero, was published in the UK and Ireland in 2007, and in the USA in 2014. She has worked as a theatre producer and publisher, founding the publishing cooperative Rawmeash in 2014. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She now lives between California and Co. Meath in Ireland.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2018
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Abuse • baby zero • breakfast in babylon • Catholic Church Abuse • cill rialaig • cill rialaig fiction • Cruelty Men • Emer Martin • Family • Family Saga • Fiction • Gaeltacht • Gaeltacht fiction • Guggenheim Fellowship • History • industrial schools Ireland • industrial schools meath • industrial schools trim • Institutions • Irish • irish fiction novel • Irish history fiction • Irvine Welsh • Kerry • Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award • Lilliput • Lilliput Press • Literature • Magdalene laundries • Magdelene Laundries • Meath • meath fiction • more bread or i'll appear • Mother and Baby Homes • murphy report • ryan report • ryan report commission • Separation • the cruelty men • trim meath
• ISBN-10: 1-84351-762-0 / 1843517620
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84351-762-7 / 9781843517627