num_pages: 212
description: A powerful novel from the bestselling author of DANCER. Colum McCann's first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico. The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.
language: English
title: Songdogs
titlecomplete: Songdogs
genres: Ireland, Roman, Irish Literature, Novels, Spain, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 920
publisher: Phoenix Fiction