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NEW NOVEL BY HUGO HAMILTON
We are delighted to announce the Kennys Exclusive Signed Limited Edition of Hugo Hamilton's new novel, Conversation with the Sea. Hugo Hamilton is an award-winning Irish novelist, memoirist and playwright. The Speckled People, a memoir of his German-Irish childhood in Dublin, was a bestseller translated into twenty languages. Conversation with the Sea, follows Lukas as he flees his failed marriage and revisits the West of Ireland to make sense of his broken life. It will be published in August.
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KENNYS EXCLUSIVE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION - Signed and Numbered by the Author - Hardback - Limited to 500 copies
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About the Book Fleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with his journal as his sole companion. His inherited memory of the Nazi Holocaust comes face to face with the present when he meets a refugee from a recent warzone. As Lukas communes with the elements in this wild coastal place, he is forced into a confrontation with the past that will carry him to the edge of existence. Conversation with the Sea speaks with heart-rending tenderness to the present moment, as it explores truth, illusion and the deadly silencing of war in a captivating tale of love in a time of displacement.
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PRAISE FOR CONVERSATION WITH THE SEA I don't think I've ever read a book as wise, or as moving... This is a book of Everything: love, family, home, war, migration, loss; at once and by turns gentle and ferocious, luminous and dark, and ultimately filled with hope. I feel changed by this novel. DONAL RYAN Truly a book for our time. PAUL LYNCH Hugo Hamilton has written a magnificent book... compulsive as it is lyrical, deeply moving, utterly readable, bursting with life. The plot is devious and seductive; the prose takes your breath away - it towers over contemporary fiction. A triumph. FRANK MCGUINNESS
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