by Seamus Deane · Random House UK · tapa dura · ISBN 9780224044059
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«Reading in the Dark» is Seamus Deane's literary fiction novel, published by Random House UK in hardcover (232 pages, in English).
The novel follows a boy's childhood in Derry (Northern Ireland) in the 1940s and 1950s: everyday life intersects with political tensions, family secrets, and a legendary dimension of demonic forces and stolen children. It explores how memory and identity are formed in an environment marked by conflict.
First edition published in 1996. The work was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
For readers of literary and historical fiction, interested in twentieth-century Ireland and coming-of-age stories with a political backdrop.
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.
