{"product_id":"a-ghost-in-the-throat-paperback","title":"A Ghost in the Throat - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDoireann Ní Ghríofa\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Post\u003c\/em\u003e Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year - A \u003cem\u003eGuardian \u003c\/em\u003eBest Book of 2020 - Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize - Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eI am eleven, a dark-haired child given to staring out window ... Her voice makes it 1773, a fine day in May, and puts English soldiers crouching in ambush; I add ditch-water to drench their knees. Their muskets point towards a young man who is falling from his saddle in slow, slow motion. A woman hurries in and kneels over him, her voice rising in an antique formula of breath and syllable the teacher calls a caoineadh, a keen to lament the dead.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal tragedy in her own life and becomes obsessed with learning everything she can about the poem Peter Levi has famously called \"the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain\" during its era. A kaleidoscopic blend of memoir, autofiction, and literary studies, \u003cem\u003eA Ghost in the Throat\u003c\/em\u003e moves fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and the people who make it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDOIREANN NÍ GHRÍOFA is a bilingual writer whose books explore birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Doireann's awards include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (USA, 2018), a Seamus Heaney Fellowship (Queen's University, 2018), the Ostana Prize (Italy, 2018), and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature (2016), among others. She is a member of Aosdána and this is her prose debut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699635523647,"sku":"9781771964111","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/0fd3354a5994e3142fff73c79f23b2dd.webp?v=1765013983","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/a-ghost-in-the-throat-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}