Louise Dean
Autor(a) de Becoming Strangers
About the Author
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Obras por Louise Dean
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1970
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Hastings, Sussex, England, UK
- Educação
- Cambridge University (BA)
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Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Membros
- 493
- Popularidade
- #50,127
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Críticas
- 22
- ISBN
- 41
- Línguas
- 1
This Human Season has had me gripped for days. It's a richly textured, beautifully told story based around the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Closed off army veteran John Dunn has taken a job in the Maze prison, formerly called Long Kesh, and Kathleen Moran's son Sean is part of the blanket protest with the other IRA prisoners in the months running up the first hunger strike.
There is a wealth of bleak sharp humour and warm but scratchy domestic detail as both live their lives and separate but interlinked family dramas while, outside, the threat of sectarian violence and growing dread draws ever nearer to home. There's a wonderful thread all the way through of how brutality begets brutality, breaking down all involved, and yet despite this humans can continue to love, hope, and attempt to build again.
It is not a particularly easy read in places - it doesn't shy away from the horrors of life in prison during the protests, or the lurking fear and intimidation of the prison officers taking place in the community, but it gave me a great deal to think about. In the gaps between being able to carry on reading, this book haunted my mind.
I'd recommend it to anyone interested in the Troubles (especially if, like me, they were a kid at the time and a lot of the context for the headlines went over your head), or if you are interested in great books in general.
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