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#2229 of 8,085 books · #964 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (2022). Also longlisted for 1 other award.

A novel examining the long, complicit aftermath of colonialism, told through the summer of 1979 and a remote island in the west of Ireland, one of the last places where people speak everyday Irish, and two men who come to experience it.

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Publisher
Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780374606527
Genre
Topics
ColonialismLanguage and identityIrish culture and tradition

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