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Beschreibung
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE
'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIAN
In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.
Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.
Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.
Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.
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'Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written' INDEPENDENT
'All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages' KATHLEEN MACMAHON
'Exquisite . . . Beautiful' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of WHEN ALL IS SAID
'Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' RÓNÁN HESSION, author of LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL
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Beiträge
Poetische und skurrile Familiengeschichte aus Irland
Kit und Paddy sind Pächter eines kleinen Cottage in Irland, weit draußen auf dem Land in einem kleinen Dorf in den 1970ern. Sie leben ein bescheidenes und scheinbar zufriedenes Leben bis ihre gerade erwachsene Tochter Moll über Nacht verschwindet. 5 Jahre hören sie nichts von Moll, dann steht sie plötzlich in der Tür und erzählt nichts. Die drei leben weiter vor sich hin, bis im Nachbardorf ein fremder Schwarzer nach Moll fragt... Ein Buch über ein scheinbar beschauliches katholisches Dorfleben, das komplett über den Haufen geworfen wird aber vor allem ein Buch über die Liebe in der Familie über alle Grenzen hinweg. Ein schönes Buch, manchmal etwas abschweifend poetisch und mystisch aber auch sehr atmosphärisch.
Plot: story of an Irish family whose daughter runs away and gets pregnant and married by a black man. She then runs away from him and he follows her back to Ireland and stays. Only then to pivot and reveal towards the end that the daughter is a lesbian in love with the wife of the owner of the land her father takes care off Opinion: I mean this book was okay, nothing spectacular to write home about. It was an okay storyline and to be honest none of the characters stood out to me or were interesting enough to capture my attention. I honestly read the book just to finish. The plot was nothing phenomenal and I would have happily DNF'd. The pivot at the end about the girl being lesbian I guess was meant to be shocking but honestly it was anticlimactic and added nothing to the story. Recommendation: it is an okay read and I personally give it 2 ⭐️s. It is an acquired taste kind of book and I don't think I really enjoyed the taste.
Beschreibung
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE
'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIAN
In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.
Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.
Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.
Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.
_________
'Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written' INDEPENDENT
'All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages' KATHLEEN MACMAHON
'Exquisite . . . Beautiful' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of WHEN ALL IS SAID
'Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' RÓNÁN HESSION, author of LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
Poetische und skurrile Familiengeschichte aus Irland
Kit und Paddy sind Pächter eines kleinen Cottage in Irland, weit draußen auf dem Land in einem kleinen Dorf in den 1970ern. Sie leben ein bescheidenes und scheinbar zufriedenes Leben bis ihre gerade erwachsene Tochter Moll über Nacht verschwindet. 5 Jahre hören sie nichts von Moll, dann steht sie plötzlich in der Tür und erzählt nichts. Die drei leben weiter vor sich hin, bis im Nachbardorf ein fremder Schwarzer nach Moll fragt... Ein Buch über ein scheinbar beschauliches katholisches Dorfleben, das komplett über den Haufen geworfen wird aber vor allem ein Buch über die Liebe in der Familie über alle Grenzen hinweg. Ein schönes Buch, manchmal etwas abschweifend poetisch und mystisch aber auch sehr atmosphärisch.
Plot: story of an Irish family whose daughter runs away and gets pregnant and married by a black man. She then runs away from him and he follows her back to Ireland and stays. Only then to pivot and reveal towards the end that the daughter is a lesbian in love with the wife of the owner of the land her father takes care off Opinion: I mean this book was okay, nothing spectacular to write home about. It was an okay storyline and to be honest none of the characters stood out to me or were interesting enough to capture my attention. I honestly read the book just to finish. The plot was nothing phenomenal and I would have happily DNF'd. The pivot at the end about the girl being lesbian I guess was meant to be shocking but honestly it was anticlimactic and added nothing to the story. Recommendation: it is an okay read and I personally give it 2 ⭐️s. It is an acquired taste kind of book and I don't think I really enjoyed the taste.