by Brian Moore · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099998105
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«Lies of Silence» is the suspense novel by Brian Moore, published by Vintage in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Michael Dillon receives an order from the IRA to leave his car in the parking lot of a Belfast hotel; he knows he is placing a bomb that will kill or maim dozens of people, but if he refuses, his wife will be murdered. The novel explores the consequences of that decision in the context of the Northern Irish conflict.
The novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1990, the year of its original publication. Brian Moore was born in Belfast in 1921 and died in 1999.
For readers of thrillers and literary fiction seeking a suspense story with political and moral undertones, set in Northern Ireland.
Brian Moore, was a novelist and screenwriter from Northern Ireland who emigrated to Canada and later lived in the United States. He was acclaimed for the descriptions in his novels of life in Northern Ireland during and after the Second World War, in particular his explorations of the inter-communal divisions of The Troubles, and has been described as "one of the few genuine masters of the contemporary novel". He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1975 and the inaugural Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1987, and he was shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. Moore also wrote screenplays and several of his books were made into films.
