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Thin Places

Af: Kerri ni Dochartaigh Engelsk Paperback

Thin Places

Af: Kerri ni Dochartaigh Engelsk Paperback
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED

''A special, beautiful, many-faceted book'' Amy Liptrot

''A remarkable piece of writing . . . Luminous'' Robert Macfarlane
''Eloquent . . . moving'' Sinéad Gleeson

Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town. But for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year they were forced out of two homes and when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like Kerri''s, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape.

In Thin Places, a mixture of memoir, history and nature writing, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone''s throw from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard, and terror to creep back in. Kerri asks us to reclaim our landscape through language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. It will always be ours but, at the same time, it never really was.

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED

''A special, beautiful, many-faceted book'' Amy Liptrot

''A remarkable piece of writing . . . Luminous'' Robert Macfarlane
''Eloquent . . . moving'' Sinéad Gleeson

Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town. But for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one year they were forced out of two homes and when she was eleven a homemade petrol bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in the very fabric of the city, and for families like Kerri''s, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it seemed there was no escape.

In Thin Places, a mixture of memoir, history and nature writing, Kerri explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty are never more than a stone''s throw from beauty and hope, and how we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard, and terror to creep back in. Kerri asks us to reclaim our landscape through language and study, and remember that the land we fight over is much more than lines on a map. It will always be ours but, at the same time, it never really was.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9781838854515
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1838854517
Kategori: Northern Ireland
Udg. Dato: 28 jan 2021
Længde: 25mm
Bredde: 215mm
Højde: 136mm
Forlag: Canongate Books
Oplagsdato: 28 jan 2021
Forfatter(e): Kerri ni Dochartaigh
Forfatter(e) Kerri ni Dochartaigh


Kategori Northern Ireland


ISBN-13 9781838854515


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 25mm


Bredde 215mm


Højde 136mm


Udg. Dato 28 jan 2021


Oplagsdato 28 jan 2021


Forlag Canongate Books

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