Nominiert für den Man Booker Prize 2005. Ein packender Roman über das Schicksal eines jungen Iren, der während des 1. Weltkriegs gezwungen ist, für die Engländer in den Kampf zu ziehen. Hoch gelobt von J. M. Coetzee, Colm Toibin und Hugo Hamilton. One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.
Klappentext
One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry's highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields and that festering at home, waiting to erupt with the Easter Rising.
Biografie
Sebastian Barry , 1955 in Dublin geboren, hat Latein und Englisch am Trinity College, Dublin, unterrichtet. Er schreibt Theaterstücke, Lyrik und Prosa. Sebastian Barry lebt in Wicklow, Irland.
