Resultados para "Claire Keegan" en Novela histórica

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CILLIAN MURPHY A SUNDAY TIMES 'TOP 5 NOVELS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY' A SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER A TOP 5 IRISH TIMES 100 BEST IRISH BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE AND...

Mit wenigen Worten erschafft Claire Keegan eine ganze Welt. Wer etwas auf sich hält in New Ross, County Wicklow, und es sich leisten kann, lässt seine Wäsche im Kloster waschen. Doch was sich dort hinter den glänzenden Fenstern und dicken Mauern ereignet, will in der Kleinstadt niemand so genau wissen. Denn es gibt Gerüchte. Dass es moralisch fragwürdige Mädchen sind, die zur Buße Schmutzflecken aus den Laken waschen. Dass sie von früh bis spät arbeiten müssen und daran zugrunde gehen. Dass ihre neugeborenen Babys ins Ausland verkauft werden.

Tender, moving, full of warmth and crackling with humour and the love of family, the exquisite new novel from the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction and the Irish Book of the Year... Something terrible has happened to Jack but no one seems to want to talk about it. His uncles can tell him...

Brought to you by Penguin. *THE #3 IRISH BESTSELLER* Three generations. More than a century of famine, war, violence and love. At sixteen Nancy, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, leaves her small island for the mainland. Finding work in a grand house on the edge of Cork...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR ‘A superb novel, evoking a bygone era when women could not afford to put a foot wrong’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘This isn't just a mystery novel: it's a window into a vanished world’ TANA FRENCH Some stories demand to be told. They keep...