Edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571226542
Published:
05.04.2012
No of pages:
272
On Canaan's Side
Sebastian Barry
Narrated by Lilly Bere,
On Canaan’s Side
opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson, Bill. The story then goes back to the moment she was forced to flee Dublin, at the end of the First World War, and follows her life through into the new world of America, a world filled with both hope and danger.
At once epic and intimate, Lilly’s narrative unfurls as she tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched. Spanning nearly seven decades, it is a novel of memory, war, family-ties and love, which once again displays Sebastian Barry's exquisite prose and gift for storytelling.
Tags
Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
General Fiction
Places:
Dublin;
America;
Ireland
Genres & Themes:
Memory;
Displacement;
Family Saga;
Emigration;
WWI;
Love
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