by Roddy Doyle · CIRCULO DE LECTORES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422687160
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«Una estrella llamada Henry» is the historical novel by Roddy Doyle, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (382 pages, in Spanish).
Henry Smart is born in the poor neighborhoods of Dublin in 1901; son of a thug with a wooden leg, he learns to steal and beg to survive. At fourteen he joins the republican movement and takes part in the Easter Rising; he soon becomes a legend of the Irish struggle, one of Michael Collins's men.
First installment of the series «The Last Roundup»; the novel's original title is «A Star Called Henry», with translation by Miguel Martínez-Lage.
For readers of historical fiction and Irish narrative.
Roderick Doyle is an Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. He is the author of eleven novels for adults, eight books for children, seven plays and screenplays, and dozens of short stories. Several of his books have been made into films, beginning with The Commitments in 1991. Doyle's work is set primarily in Ireland, especially working-class Dublin, and is notable for its heavy use of dialogue written in slang and Irish English dialect. Doyle was awarded the Booker Prize in 1993 for his novel Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
