{"product_id":"emer-martin-thirsty-ghosts-2023-paperback","title":"Emer Martin: Thirsty Ghosts [2023] paperback","description":"Emer Martin's is a radical, vital voice in Irish writing, as she challenges the history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and the mistreatment of women across mid-to-late twentieth-century Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo families inhabit this immersive polyvocal work, an intergenerational saga announced with The Cruelty Men (2018) and continued here as punk rockers and Magdalene laundries spiral into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by its tribal undertow. Scenes surface from Ireland's mythological past, Tudor plantations, workhouses and industrial schools, the Troubles laid bare, the transformative pre-digital decades playing out in this propulsive narrative. Thirsty Ghosts is epic in scope while intimate in focus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Lyons, professionals in a newly independent state, are attacked by paramilitaries in their family home in Tyrone. The eccentric O'Conaills of Kerry, traumatized by displacement, find themselves in leafy Dublin 4. We encounter a servant 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelated with dark humour, verve and high literary style, Thirsty Ghosts is a revelatory exploration of Ireland combining themes of power, class, fertility, violence and deep love, forces as universal as the old stories that permeate and illuminate each character's life.","brand":"Martin, Emer","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47134793924947,"sku":"XV81843518631","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":47076980851027,"sku":"9781843518631","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/martin-emer-emer-martin-thirsty-ghosts-2023-paperback-1154479649.jpg?v=1743880537","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.pro\/products\/emer-martin-thirsty-ghosts-2023-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}