Seamus Deane has created a luminous tale about how childhood fear turns into fantasy and fantasy turns into fact. Meanwhile the real world of adulthood unfolds its secrets like a collection of folktales: the dead sister walking again the lost uncle, Eddie, present on every page the family house "as cunning and articulate as a labyrinth, closely designed, with someone sobbing at the heart of it." And as he listens, and watches, the world of legend-the stone fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly-reveals its transfixing reality. As the boy listens through the silence that surrounds him, the truth spreads like a stain until it engulfs him and his family. The matter: a deadly betrayal, unspoken and unspeakable, born of political enmity. The boy narrator grows up haunted by a truth he both wants and does not want to discover. Hugely acclaimed in Great Britain, where it was awarded the Guardian Fiction Prize and short-listed for the Booker, Seamus Deane's first novel is a mesmerizing story of childhood set against the violence of Northern Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s. Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award
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