TransAtlantic
1919. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached? 1845. Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling a…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4088-3415-2
- EAN: 9781408834152
- Produktnummer: 14764873
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 368 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'302 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Colum McCann, originally from Dublin, Ireland, is the author of six novels and two collections of stories. His most recent novel, the New York Times bestseller Let the Great World Spin, won the National Book Award, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and several other major international awards. His fiction has been published in thirty-five languages. He lives in New York. www.colummccann.com
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