On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
An elderly Irishwoman looks back over a life shaped by early losses and the political violence of her homeland, recalling childhood, a forbidden love, the wrench of emigration with her young son, and the long shadow of war and exile that follows him to America. Told as a moving first‑person reminiscence, the narrative weaves personal memory with historical upheaval—small acts of kindness, devastating betrayals, and stubborn attachments—culminating in an elegiac meditation on family, grief, regret, and the ways private lives are haunted by national history.
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- Published
- 2011
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- Irish
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- English
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