Title: The Speckled People
First published: 2003
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Novelists, Irish, Languages, Germans, Family relationships, Social conditions, Irish Novelists, Refugees, Childhood and youth, Biography, Nationalists, Manners and customs, Dublin (Ireland), Language and languages, Authors, biography, Ireland, social life and customs, Germans, foreign countries, Ireland, languages, English Authors
Places: Dublin (Ireland), Ireland
People: Hugo Hamilton
Time periods: 20th century