The Quick and the Dead
Selected Stories
- Schrijver: Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Ierland)
- Soort boek: verhalen
- Oorspronkelijke taal: Iers
- Engelse vertaling: Louis de Paor
- Uitgever: Yale University Press
- Verschijnt: 26 oktober 2021
- Omvang: 352 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen van Máirtín Ó Cadhain
A collection of the finest stories from the Irish author of The Dirty Dust, published fifty years after his death.
These colorful tales from renowned Irish author Máirtín Ó Cadhain (1906–1970) whisk readers to the salty western shores of Ireland, where close-knit farming communities follow the harsh rhythms of custom, family, and land, even as they dream together of a kinder world. In this collection, the resilient women and men of the Gaeltacht regions struggle toward self-realization against the brutal pressures of rural poverty, and later, the hollowing demands of modern city life.
Weaving together tradition and modernity, and preserving the earthy cadence of the original language, this rich and heart-rending collection by one of Ireland’s most acclaimed fiction writers is a composite portrait of a country poised at the edge of irreversible transformation.
Máirtín Ó Cadhain was born in An Cnocán Glas, Cois Fharraige, Connemara. He is best known for his novel Cré na Cille, which has been translated into English as The Dirty Dust and Graveyard Clay.