by Jennifer Johnston · Penguin Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140139792
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«Shadows on Our Skin» is the novel by Jennifer Johnston, published by Penguin Books Ltd in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Joe Logan grows up in Derry, a city marked by the British military presence, between a consumed father and the longing for better times. Joe befriends Kathleen, a newly arrived teacher, and finds a respite, until his brother Brendan returns from London with a gun and secrets that change his childhood forever.
This novel was first published in 1977, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and received the Giuseppe Acerbi Prize in 2003.
For readers interested in contemporary Irish fiction and coming-of-age stories set against the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Jennifer Prudence Johnston was an Irish novelist. She won a number of awards, including the Whitbread Book Award for The Old Jest in 1979 and a Lifetime Achievement from the Irish Book Awards (2012). The Old Jest, a novel about the Irish War of Independence, was later made into a film called The Dawning, starring Anthony Hopkins, produced by Sarah Lawson and directed by Robert Knights.
