Description
| Product ID: | 9780007309252 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Blood-Dark Track |
| Subtitle: | A Family History |
| Authors: | Author: Joseph O’Neill |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, History: specific events and topics, Political oppression and persecution, Family history, tracing ancestors, History: specific events & topics, Political oppression & persecution, Family history, tracing ancestors, Ireland, Turkey, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) |
| Description: | A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, ‘Netherland’. A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O''Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, ‘Netherland’.Joseph O''Neill''s grandfathers – one Irish, one Turkish – were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA and was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O''Neill''s other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy.At the age of thirty, Joseph O''Neill set out to uncover his grandfather''s stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families and two charismatic but flawed men – it is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia and fear, of memories of violence and of fierce commitments to political causes. |
| Imprint Name: | HarperPerennial |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-04-30 |
