Blood-Dark Track: A Family History

From the bestselling and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of Netherland, a fascinating, personal, and beautifully crafted family history.

Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers--one Turkish, one Irish--were both imprisoned for suspected subversion during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA. O'Neill's other grandfather, a debonair hotelier from the tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was interned by the British in Palestine on suspicion of being an Axis spy.

With intellect, compassion, and grace, O'Neill sets the stories of these individuals against the history of the last century's most inhuman events.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/05/2010
ISBN: 9780307472953
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.72lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.27w x 0.71d

Review Citations: Booklist 09/01/2010 pg. 30
New York Times Book Review 12/12/2010 pg. 28