In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland since Patrick McCabe’s THE BUTCHER BOY and Seamus Deane’s READING IN THE DARK, acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before this little boy has uncovered the dark and long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents’ wardrobe. Out of this fear and confusion Hugo tries to build a balanced view of the world, to turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. English is what they use when they hunt down Hugo (or ‘Eichmann’ as they dub him) in the streets of Dublin, and English is what they use when they bring him to trial and execute him at a mock seaside court. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place: His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning of the war, encourages them to speak German. OL1682533W Page_number_confidence 95.78 Pages 310 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.11 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210412171152 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 346 Scandate 20210331094744 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780007156634 Tts_version 4.A deeply moving memoir about a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family’s homesickness for a country they can call their own.
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