Blood-Dark Track

A Family History

von Joseph O'Neill

354 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, 'Netherland'.Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers - one Irish, one Turkish - were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA and was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O'Neill's other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy.At the age of thirty, Joseph O'Neill set out to uncover his grandfather's stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families and two charismatic but flawed men - it is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia and fear, of memories of violence and of fierce commitments to political causes.

• Reihe: Harper Perennial
• ISBN: 9780007309252
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.04.2009
• Größe: 199 x 129 mm
• Verlag: HarperCollins