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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood Paperback - 2004
by Hamilton, Hugo
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- Title The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood
- Author Hamilton, Hugo
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 298
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0007156634I5N10
- ISBN 9780007156634 / 0007156634
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 8.05 x 5.39 x 0.78 in (20.45 x 13.69 x 1.98 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Irish
- Library of Congress subjects Hamilton, Hugo - Childhood and youth, Novelists, Irish - 20th century
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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From the rear cover
"We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are forbidden from speaking English. We are trapped in a language war. We are the Speckled People." In one of the most original memoirs to emerge in years, Hugo Hamilton tells the haunting story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950s Dublin. His Gaelic-speaking, Irish nationalist father rules the home with tyranny, while his German-speaking mother rescues her children with cakes and stories of her own struggle against Nazi Germany. Out on the streets of Dublin is another country, where they are taunted as Nazis and subjected to a mock Nuremberg trial. Through the eyes of a child, this rare and shockingly honest book gradually makes sense of family, language, and identity, unlocking at last the secrets that his parents kept in the wardrobe.
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Citations
- New York Times, 06/20/2004, Page 20