{"product_id":"thirsty-ghosts-paperback","title":"Thirsty Ghosts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEmer Martin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Flann O'Brien shot through with Guillermo del Toro. . . . A wild, magnificent book.\" --\u003c\/i\u003eSunday Business Post \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"To say Emer Martin's fifth novel is epic would be an understatement.\" --\u003c\/i\u003eSunday Independent \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"There is ambition and then there is the Great Irish Novel kind of ambition that is in Emer Martin's \u003c\/i\u003eThirsty Ghosts\u003ci\u003e ... A fine balance of the savagely funny and heartbreaking.\" --\u003c\/i\u003eBookseller \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Emer Martin is an original, radical and vital voice in Irish writing who challenges the history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and the mistreatment of women across mid twentieth-century Ireland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Two families intertwine in this energetic new work, an epic intergenerational saga that began with \u003ci\u003eThe Cruelty Men\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and continues here as punk rockers and Catholic laundries collide and spiral forward into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by history. Interweaving scenes from Ireland's mythological past, the Tudor plantations, the Magdalene laundries and the 1980s, The Thirsty Ghosts is epic in scope but intimate in focus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Lyons, professionals in a newly independent state, are attacked by paramilitaries in their family home in Tyrone. The displaced eccentric O'Conaills, traumatized by industrial schools and laundries, find themselves in leafy Dublin 4. There's a servant girl who meets Henry VIII, a Lithuanian Jewish family who become part of the fabric of Dublin, and a wild young girl who escapes the laundry only to stumble into a psycho pimp. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Related with dark humor and high literary style, \u003ci\u003eThe Thirsty Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelatory exploration of Ireland; its themes of power, class, fertility, violence and deep love are as universal as the old stories that illuminate the characters' lives. \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmer Martin\u003c\/b\u003e is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East and New York, and is now living in California where she teaches writing, painting and resisting. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eBreakfast in Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 1996. Her second, \u003ci\u003eMore Bread or I'll Appear\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1999.\u003ci\u003e Baby Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, her third novel, appeared in 2007. She was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000 and founded the publishing cooperative Rawmeash in 2014. \u003ci\u003eThe Cruelty Men\u003c\/i\u003e was published by the Lilliput Press in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award in 2019. She lives in Palo Alto. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 8.4 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42726339706943,"sku":"9781843518631","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/dceedea1e0d7610394a906657b2a4f71.webp?v=1765110303","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/thirsty-ghosts-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}