Binding: Paperback
Description: Longlisted FOR THE Booker Prize Luminous. Jonathan Myerson The Guardian Vivid thought - provoking. Malcolm Forbes Star Tribune In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers despite what it may cost the islanders. It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by currach though boats with engines are available and he doesn t much like the sea. He wants the authentic experience to be changed by this place to let its quiet and light fill him give him room to create. He doesn t know that a Frenchman follows close behind. Jean - Pierre Masson has visited the island for many years studying the language of those who make it their home. He is fiercely protective of their isolation deems it essential to exploring his theories of language preservation and identity. But the people who live on this rock three miles long and half a mile wide have their own views on what is being recorded what is being taken and what ought to be given in return. Over the summer each of them from great - grandmother Bean U Fhloinn to widowed Mair ad to fifteen - year - old James who is determined to avoid the life of a fisherman will wrestle with their values and desires. Meanwhile all over Ireland violence is erupting. And there is blame enough to go around. An expertly woven portrait of character and place a stirring investigation into yearning to find one's way and an unflinchingly political critique of the long seething cost of imperialism Audrey Magee's The Colony is a novel that transports that celebrates beauty and connection and that reckons with the inevitable ruptures of independence.
Title: The Colony A Novel
Author(s): Magee Audrey
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250867216
Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/13/2023