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- ISBN 9780007309252
- Weight: 228g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2009
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Joseph O’Neill is an Irish barrister living in New York. He is the author of three novels, ‘Netherland’, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, ‘This is the Life’ and ‘The Breezes’.
