The memoir of Hugo Hamilton, which details his life as a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Hugo Hamilton.
The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
Hugo Hamilton · ISBN 9780007156634
Julkaistu 2004 Kieli englanti nidottu
"A terrific achievement, thoughtful and compelling, smart and original, beautifully written." --Nick Hornby"Astonishing. . . a landmark in Irish nonfiction. . . a masterpiece."...
In this remarkable book, Hugo Hamilton tells the story of individuals caught up in the turbulent last days of World War II.
Following on from the success of ‘The Speckled People’, Hugo Hamilton's new memoir recounts the summer he spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fe...
You have a funny way of doing things here.
`Not only haunted by death, but also by beauty and the strangeness of being alive. A deeply memorable novel' Colm Toibin
‘A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving’ Tessa Hadley 'A terrific, engrossing novel’ Roddy Doyle ‘A masterpiece’ Sebastian Barry The new novel about the transformative p...
‘Part thriller, part treasure hunt and part love story … Profound and heartbreaking’ Sunday Times ‘A terrific, engrossing novel’ Roddy Doyle ‘A masterpiece’ Sebastian Barry ‘A r...
"In navigating such turbulent emotional waters, Hamilton proves himself yet again a writer able to touch thousands of hearts as he delves deep into his own." -- USA TodayFrom th...
An entirely original novel in which a book--Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion--narrates its own astonishing life story, from 1930s Germany to the present day, at the heart of...
Fleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work...
Fleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work...
Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a...
Headbanger - Pat Coyne is a Dublin policeman who is passionately devoted to sorting out the world and its problems. For Coyne, such things as cars, crime, pollution and golf are...
Jahre nach Heinrich Böll begibt sich der deutsch-irische Schriftsteller Hugo Hamilton auf die Spuren des deutschen Nobelpreisträgers und bereist die Grüne Insel. Das Ergebnis is...
De spräckliga : en irländsk barndom
Hugo Hamilton · ISBN 9789186497064
Julkaistu 2011 Kieli ruotsi nidottu
"De spräckliga är en fängslande och bitvis mycket rolig roman. Barndomsskildringar är nästan omöjliga att skriva utan att det blir antingen sött eller pompöst, men Hamilton hör...
Efter framgången med hyllade memoarboken De spräckliga följer den irländske författaren Hugo Hamilton upp med Sjömannen i garderoben. I denna starkt berörande berättelse skildra...