Redemption Falls - Tapa blanda

"Redemption Falls deals with a crucial period in the history of Ireland and the United States. The story is told with extraordinary ingenuity, the tone a mixture of the playful and the grave, at times fast-moving, smart and very clever, and then full of beautiful writing and heart-breaking sequences. The cadences of the competing voices in the book combine to produce a dazzling narrative."--Colm Toibin"""Redemption Falls is a gem. It's a glorious book, enormous, virtuoso and brave. Its scope is wide - love, death, war, belonging - and yet its gaze is intimate. At its heart is the story of a woman who wants to return to the only country she has - her family. The language is at turns bawdy, ancient, poetic, grand and funny. One can't dismiss the genius that's involved in being able to tell such necessary stories in a time of war and still be able to beat back all the cliches. The minute I finished the book I wanted to start reading it all over again."--Colum McCann"A huge achievement, as deep as it is wide, this is a book like no other of these times - a panorama of tragic love set among people devastated by the American Civil War, brilliantly recounted in the multiple tones of their voices, writings and songs, and realised with an empathy both impressive and extraordinarily moving."--Nuala O'Faolain"This book took my breath away. If you're interested at all in the American Civil War, Irish participation in same, love, the expansion of the West, you'll delight in this novel. It is panoramic, yet dense and delicious in detail. It is written gloriously, as if Mr O'Connor toiled at some mighty cathedral organ containing the whole of the English language with its Irish and American flavourings. This is a brave book and only a brave heart could have written it."--Frank McCourt " There is so much that is memorable in Star of the Sea . . . grounded upon well-researched, vivid, unprejudiced empathy." - "Sunday Telegraph" "There is so much that is memorable in Star of the Sea . . . grounded upon well-researched, vivid, unprejudiced empathy."-"Sunday Telegraph"

Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. He has written ten widely acclaimed and best-selling books including the novels Cowboys and Indians; Desperadoes; The Salesman; Inishowen, and most recently Star of the Sea.