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  • ISBN: 9780007149988
  • ISBN10: 0007149980
The Speckled People

by Hamilton, Hugo A

 
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The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is an ongoing struggle to understand what it means to be one of the "Speckled People, " his father's phrase to describe "the new Irish, partly from Ireland, partly from somewhere else." Hugo's father is a fierce Irish-speaking nationalist; his mother, a... Expand soft-spoken German marked by her family's refusal to accept Nazi anti-Semitism, talks in the language of her homeland. Hugo wants to speak English, the same English that the other Dublin children use when they hunt him down in the streets and call him "Eichmann, " as they bring him to trial and sentence him to death at a mock seaside court.Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the rival histories of his family and his home. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of his parents' wardrobe have been laid bare. In one of the finest books to emerge from Ireland in many years, the acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has written a deeply moving memoir about a family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.Collapse
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