5/19/2023 0 Comments Transatlantic colum mccann summary![]() ![]() ![]() And in 1998 Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. Irish-American author Colum McCann has spent the better part of his life inhabiting others in his novels from Russian ballet dancers to New York subway diggers. In 1845 Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. Summary: SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2013 SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2013 'It is, simply, perfect' Irish Examiner 'Majestic' Sunday Times ' Quite simply one of the best, most sustained pieces of fiction I've read in some time' Independent _ In 1919 Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of World War One to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. ![]()
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