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"The entire political spectrum of our day, from left to right, reflects the politics of identity. The left speaks of race and gender; the right of blood and soil, homeland and people: the animosity between them is only the difference between the...
"An international bestseller and one of The Times's "Top 50 Novels Published in the 21st Century," Claire Keegan's piercing contemporary classic Foster is a heartbreaking story of childhood, loss, and love, now released as a standalone book for...
"I read this after reading a couple novels about mid-20th century Ireland -- This Is Happiness by William Niall and Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan -- and Patrick Radden Keefe's non-fiction book on the violent "troubles" in Northern Irelan..."
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"A celebrated Irish writer's magisterial, brilliantly insightful chronicle of the wrenching transformations that dragged his homeland into the modern world. Fintan O'Toole was born in the year the revolution began. It was 1958, and the Irish...
