Faber & Faber- 9780571396191
From the author of A Ghost in the Throat, an unforgettable book - both history and ghost story - that will leave you gasping by its final page.
In the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments. One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had she lived in another time, she too might have found herself held within those walls.
Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE.
It is the first of many signs. Guided by an irresistible impulse, she follows them. Soon, she is trespassing, stealing, absconding from the routine of mother, spouse, daughter, as she uncovers a chorus of startling voices: those of the women who knew this place best. They murmur from archives and old records. They haunt from stairwells and walls. In them - and in one figure in particular -- she may find meaning and solace, righteous anger, salvation even. Or her final vanishing?
A work of sublime intensity and tenderness, Said the Dead breaks the boundaries between worlds -- past and present, imagined and real, fact and fiction -- to make something new and lasting: an experience full of danger, full of love and full of truth.
Praise for the work of Doireann Ní Ghríofa
The effect is electric, like seeing a ghost returned to life.New Statesman
Obliterates every clear definition of genre and form . . . Astounding and utterly fresh.Irish Independent
Lush, lyrical prose that dazzles readers from the get-go . . . sumptuous, almost symphonic, in its intensity.Sunday Times
Past versus present, blood versus milk, birth versus death . . . dichotomies abound, but the questions of womens lived experiences and who history remembers link them all.Paris Review
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Escrito por DOIREANN NI GHRIOFA
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