num_pages: 233
description: A novel in which the boy narrator grows up enclosed in two worlds. One is legendary - a Donegal house where children are stolen away by demonic forces; the other is actual - the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 1940s and 1950s, a place haunted by political enmities and family secrets.
language: English
title: Reading in the Dark
titlecomplete: Reading in the Dark
genres: Irish Literature, Fiction, Coming Of Age, Literature, Historical Fiction, College, Ireland, Literary Fiction, Novels, Historical
ratings_count: 4409
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Guardian Fiction Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: First Novel, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Los Angeles Times Book Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Irish Times International Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 1483257600000
name: Openbook好書獎
category: 年度好書．翻譯書
publisher: Vintage