Thirsty Ghosts (eBook)

Emer Martin (Autor)

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2023
352 Seiten
The Lilliput Press (Verlag)
978-1-84351-879-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Emer Martin's is a radical, vital voice in Irish writing, as she challenges the history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and the mistreatment of women across mid-to-late twentieth-century Ireland.


Two families inhabit this immersive polyvocal work, an intergenerational saga announced with The Cruelty Men (2018) and continued here as punk rockers and Magdalene laundries spiral into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by its tribal undertow. Scenes surface from Ireland's mythological past, Tudor plantations, workhouses and industrial schools, the Troubles laid bare, the transformative pre-digital decades playing out in this propulsive narrative. Thirsty Ghosts is epic in scope while intimate in focus.


The Lyons, professionals in a newly independent state, are attacked by paramilitaries in their family home in Tyrone. The eccentric O'Conaills of Kerry, traumatized by displacement, find themselves in leafy Dublin 4. We encounter a servant who meets Henry VIII, a Lithuanian Jewish family who become part of the fabric of Dublin, and a wild young girl who escapes the laundry only to stumble into a psycho pimp.


Related with dark humour, verve and high literary style, Thirsty Ghosts is a revelatory exploration of Ireland combining themes of power, class, fertility, violence and deep love, forces as universal as the old stories that permeate and illuminate each character's life.

Autor

Emer Martin is a Dubliner who spent formative years in Paris, London, the Middle East and New York. She now lives with her family in southern California where she teaches writing, painting and resisting. Her garlanded debut novel, Breakfast in Babylon, won Book of the Year 1996 at Listowel Writers' Week. Her second, More Bread or I'll Appear, was published in 1999. Baby Zero, her third novel, came out in 2007. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 and founded the publishing cooperative Rawmeash in 2014. The Cruelty Men was published by the Lilliput Press in 2018 and shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2019.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2023
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: baby zero • breakfast in babylon • catholic laundries fiction • Christian Brothers • Christine Dwyer Hickey • Class • dublin fiction • eilis ni dhuibne • Emer Martin • fertility • Fiction • gangland ireland • Guggenheim Fellowship • Ireland • irish church novel • Irish fiction • irish novel • Irish Novel of the Year • Irish Punk • irish women fiction • irish writer • Irvine Welsh • June Caldwell • kerry group irish novel of the year • Lilliput Press • Listowel • Listowel Writers' Week • magdalene laundries fiction • Martina Devlin • meath fiction • more bread or i'll appear • o'conaill family • Power • rawmeash • the cruelty men • thirsty ghosts • Violence
• ISBN-10: 1-84351-879-1 / 1843518791
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84351-879-2 / 9781843518792