by Seamus Deane · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099563730
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«Reading in the Dark» is the novel by Seamus Deane, published by Vintage in paperback (240 pages, in English).
In the Derry of the 1940s, a nameless young man grows up among ghosts and legends while the Troubles mark his family. A curse haunts two families, an agent incriminates him, and deceit becomes his only defense. The narrator tries to unravel a family secret wrapped in violence and silence.
Originally published in 1996, it won the Guardian Fiction Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and was a finalist for the Booker Prize.
For readers of literary and historical fiction interested in Northern Ireland, family memory, and coming-of-age stories.
Seamus Francis Deane was a Northern Irish poet, novelist, critic, and intellectual historian. He was noted for his debut novel, Reading in the Dark, which won several literary awards and was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1996.
