{"product_id":"thirsty-ghosts-9781843518631","title":"Thirsty Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Flann O'Brien shot through with Guillermo del Toro. . . . A wild, magnificent book.\" --\u003c\/i\u003eSunday Business Post \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"To say Emer Martin's fifth novel is epic would be an understatement.\" --\u003c\/i\u003eSunday Independent \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"There is ambition and then there is the Great Irish Novel kind of ambition that is in Emer Martin's \u003c\/i\u003eThirsty Ghosts\u003ci\u003e ... A fine balance of the savagely funny and heartbreaking.\" --\u003c\/i\u003eBookseller \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Emer Martin is an original, radical and vital voice in Irish writing who challenges the history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and the mistreatment of women across mid twentieth-century Ireland. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Two families intertwine in this energetic new work, an epic intergenerational saga that began with \u003ci\u003eThe Cruelty Men\u003c\/i\u003e (2018) and continues here as punk rockers and Catholic laundries collide and spiral forward into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by history. Interweaving scenes from Ireland's mythological past, the Tudor plantations, the Magdalene laundries and the 1980s, The Thirsty Ghosts is epic in scope but intimate in focus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Lyons, professionals in a newly independent state, are attacked by paramilitaries in their family home in Tyrone. The displaced eccentric O'Conaills, traumatized by industrial schools and laundries, find themselves in leafy Dublin 4. There's a servant girl who meets Henry VIII, a Lithuanian Jewish family who become part of the fabric of Dublin, and a wild young girl who escapes the laundry only to stumble into a psycho pimp. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Related with dark humor and high literary style, \u003ci\u003eThe Thirsty Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelatory exploration of Ireland; its themes of power, class, fertility, violence and deep love are as universal as the old stories that illuminate the characters' lives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lilliput Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781843518631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352","brand":"Emer Martin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43838700945589,"sku":"9781843518631","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2e375189-a030-4336-bb08-aaae259d9b72.jpg?v=1712028473","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/thirsty-ghosts-9781843518631","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}