The speckled people
By: Hugo Hamilton.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Hamilton, Hugo -- Childhood and youth; Novelists, Irish -- 20th century -- Biography; Nationalists -- Ireland -- Family relationships; Refugees -- Ireland -- Family relationships; Germans -- Ireland -- Family relationships; Dublin (Ireland) -- Social life and customs; Dublin (Ireland) -- Languages
Genres: Biography.
Description: "As a young boy, growing up in Dublin, Hugo Hamilton struggles with the question of what it means to be speckled. The speckled people are, in his father's words, 'the new Irish, partly from Ireland, partly from somewhere else' ... Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and to turn the strange logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of the parents' wardrobe have been laid bare"--Jacket.