Ireland is a country with ancient saturated history, wonderful nature and an unusual culture. Many writers, starting with Wilde, ending with Joyce, wrote about this country and about her capital, Dublin, and many directors used Ireland as a set. In general, there really is what to see. But before packing suitcases, we suggest you read five books, the action of which is happening in Ireland.
"Aero Angela" Frank McCort
This greatest novel brought his author to the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. Many Irish moved to America because of work, and then, during the Great Depression, were forced to come back to their homeland. So happened to the maccourt family, which in 1934 came back to Limerick. "Age of Angela" is touching memoirs and tribute to Mother Frank McCorta, Angele. In Roman, he talks about his hard childhood, in which I had to survive: Hunger, unemployment, father's drunkenness, lack of money for rent even in the poorest area of Limerick. This story about how little Frank became the head of the family in too young for this age. A little later, the Roman became the main for the scenario of the film Alan Parker, was translated into 17 languages and is considered a masterpiece of literature along with the works of Selinger, Orwell and Marquez.
Brooklyn Colm Toybina
This novel, published in 2009 and awarded the Costa Prize, is the history of emigrants, transformed by loneliness and freedom. Eilish Leslie returns home to Ireland in the 1950s, and her family life, built in New York, remains overseas, is blurred. It adapts to the usual rhythm of life in the County of Wesford and falls in love with the local handsome man of Jim Faell. Nevertheless, Brooklyn life finds her in the Irish coastal cocoon, and the heroine has to do a difficult choice between the two worlds and two men: the husband, which remained in New York and the new beloved. This is a novel about the search for himself, the feelings of a girl who had to start a new life in a foreign country, and then it was out of it and pull out. In 2015, the eponymous film was removed, transmitting the atmosphere of two countries and emotions of the heroine.
The romantic history between the two countries will hobble you
Photo: Frame from the movie "Brooklyn"
Green Road Ann Enrait
Winner of the "MAN Booker" award Ann Enrait writes his soft lyrical romance about Rosalin Madigan. Green road is a real existing road in Ireland, leading to the fictional estate of the main character. Four children Rosalin return home to spend one last Christmas together, and they tell the painful stories of their lives: Hannah - Alcoholic, Dan lives with his guy in Toronto, Emmett cannot find himself, and Constance - leave the house. The history of this family can remind the reader about his own personal or family experiences in a difficult period of life. This is one of those works, which, you will stop to comprehend read.
"Normal people" Sally Rooney
Published in 2018 and submitted to the long list for the "Man Booker" prize in the same year, the story of Sally Rooney about the broken hearts and minds crosses the class structure and Ireland from the west coast to Dublin. The book reveals a fragile relationship between the popular student of the senior school, Connell, and Marginal Marianne. Roman describes changes when it becomes a classroom girl from Trinity College Dublin, and he loses his greatness there. The book appeared in the list 19 of the best books Barack Obama for 2019.
Immerse yourself in the atmosphere of Ireland
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"Sea" John Benville
In the novel John Benville, who received the 2005 Man Booker award, the historian of art Max Morden is described as a person living in the sea trying to pass his way, despite the loss and sadness. He returns to the County of Wesford, where he spent the summer holidays in childhood. Reading a book, you can experience the taste of saline air and feel like a gentle breeze burns the skin when the prose flows between the past and the present, in this eternal, anxious masterpiece.