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The speckled people : a memoir of a half-Irish childhood / Hugo Hamilton

By:

Hamilton, Hugo

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Fourth Estate , c2003.Edition: 1st edDescription: 298 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

0007149980

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DDC classification:

92 HAM

Summary: The author tells a story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950's Dublin. His Gaelic-speaking, Irish nationalist father rules the home with tyranny, while his German-speaking mother rescues her children with cakes and stories of her own struggle against Nazi Germany. Out on the streets of Dublin is another country, where they are taunted as Nazis and subjected to a mock Nuremberg trial. Through the eyes of a child, this rare and shockingly honest book gradually makes sense of family, language, and identity, unlocking at last the secrets that his parents kept in the wardrobe.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		024640

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The author tells a story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950's Dublin. His Gaelic-speaking, Irish nationalist father rules the home with tyranny, while his German-speaking mother rescues her children with cakes and stories of her own struggle against Nazi Germany. Out on the streets of Dublin is another country, where they are taunted as Nazis and subjected to a mock Nuremberg trial. Through the eyes of a child, this rare and shockingly honest book gradually makes sense of family, language, and identity, unlocking at last the secrets that his parents kept in the wardrobe.

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