Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
'Contemporary history at its finest' Maya Jasanoff One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this terrible crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades. In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patrick Radden Keefe offers not just a forensic account of a brutal crime but a vivid portrait of the world in which it happened. The tragedy of an entire country is captured in the spellbinding narrative of a handful of characters, presented in lyrical and unforgettable detail. A poem by Seamus Heaney inspires the title: 'Whatever You Say, Say Nothing'. By defying the culture of silence, Keefe illuminates how a close-knit society fractured; how people chose sides in a conflict and turned to violence; and how, when the shooting stopped, some ex-combatants came to look back in horror at the atrocities they had...
Jahr:
2018
Verlag:
HarperCollins Publishers
Sprache:
english
ISBN 10:
0008159254
ISBN 13:
9780008159252
ISBN:
e21d104c-3036-4764-a1ce-7dfd95b9e8d3
Datei:
MOBI , 15.75 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018