Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan - Brossura

Gilligan, Ruth

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ISBN 10: 1941040497 ISBN 13: 9781941040492

Casa editrice: Tin House Books, 2017

Riassunto

Three intertwining voices span the twentieth century to tell the unknown story of the Jews in Ireland. A heartbreaking portrait of what it means to belong, and how storytelling can redeem us all.

At the start of the twentieth century, a young girl and her family emigrate from Lithuania in search of a better life in America, only to land on the Emerald Isle instead. In 1958, a mute Jewish boy locked away in a mental institution outside of Dublin forms an unlikely friendship with a man consumed by the story of the love he lost nearly two decades earlier. And in present-day London, an Irish journalist is forced to confront her conflicting notions of identity and family when her Jewish boyfriend asks her to make a true leap of faith. These three arcs, which span generations and intertwine in revelatory ways, come together to tell the haunting story of Ireland’s all-but-forgotten Jewish community. Ruth Gilligan’s beautiful and heartbreaking Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan explores the question of just how far we will go to understand who we really are, and to feel at home in the world.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ruth Gilligan is a graduate of Cambridge and Yale, and now works as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. She contributes regular literary reviews to The Guardian, Los Angeles Review of Books, Irish Independent, and the Times Literary Supplement.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Tin House Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1941040497
• ISBN 13: 9781941040492
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile