THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING
ONE OF DUA LIPA'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
‘The best book I’ve read for a while, it’s fantastic’ John Oliver
‘A must read’ Gillian Flynn
One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this terrible crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades.
In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patrick Radden Keefe offers not just a forensic account of a brutal crime but a vivid portrait of the world in which it happened. The tragedy of an entire country is captured in the spellbinding narrative of a handful of characters, presented in lyrical and unforgettable detail.
A poem by Seamus Heaney inspires the title: ‘Whatever You Say, Say Nothing’. By defying the culture of silence, Keefe illuminates how a close-knit society fractured; how people chose sides in a conflict and turned to violence; and how, when the shooting stopped, some ex-combatants came to look back in horror at the atrocities they had committed, while others continue to advocate violence even today.
Say Nothing deftly weaves the stories of Jean McConville and her family with those of Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA as a front-line soldier, who bombed the Old Bailey when barely out of her teens; Gerry Adams, who helped bring an end to the fighting, but denied his own IRA past; Brendan Hughes, a fearsome IRA commander who turned on Adams after the peace process and broke the IRA’s code of silence; and other indelible figures. By capturing the intrigue, the drama and the profound human cost of the Troubles, the book presents a searing chronicle of the lengths that people are willing to go to in pursuit of a political ideal, and the ways in which societies mend – or don’t – in the aftermath of a long and bloody conflict.
© 2018 William Collins (Ljudbok): 9780008159283
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 1 november 2018
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING
ONE OF DUA LIPA'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
‘The best book I’ve read for a while, it’s fantastic’ John Oliver
‘A must read’ Gillian Flynn
One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this terrible crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades.
In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patrick Radden Keefe offers not just a forensic account of a brutal crime but a vivid portrait of the world in which it happened. The tragedy of an entire country is captured in the spellbinding narrative of a handful of characters, presented in lyrical and unforgettable detail.
A poem by Seamus Heaney inspires the title: ‘Whatever You Say, Say Nothing’. By defying the culture of silence, Keefe illuminates how a close-knit society fractured; how people chose sides in a conflict and turned to violence; and how, when the shooting stopped, some ex-combatants came to look back in horror at the atrocities they had committed, while others continue to advocate violence even today.
Say Nothing deftly weaves the stories of Jean McConville and her family with those of Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA as a front-line soldier, who bombed the Old Bailey when barely out of her teens; Gerry Adams, who helped bring an end to the fighting, but denied his own IRA past; Brendan Hughes, a fearsome IRA commander who turned on Adams after the peace process and broke the IRA’s code of silence; and other indelible figures. By capturing the intrigue, the drama and the profound human cost of the Troubles, the book presents a searing chronicle of the lengths that people are willing to go to in pursuit of a political ideal, and the ways in which societies mend – or don’t – in the aftermath of a long and bloody conflict.
© 2018 William Collins (Ljudbok): 9780008159283
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 1 november 2018
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Ivan
4 maj 2021
Fantastisk skildring av IRA och hela historiska problembilden på Nordirland under den mest våldsamma perioden. Rekommenderas varmt. Speciellt var den irländska uppläsaren behaglig och gav autencitet åt historien med sin dialekt.
Karin
10 juni 2020
Informativ och spännande skriven. Lärde mig mycket nytt om denna mörka period. Bra blandning av historiska fakta och mänskliga öden.
Eva
22 apr. 2020
A very well written and important book!
Kerstin
9 sep. 2020
Hemsk och hemskt bra.
David
2 juli 2023
Välskriven, intressant och balanserad skildring av ett dystert kapitel i Europas efterkrigshistoria
Mattias
15 nov. 2022
Ger mig minnen av den tid jag bodde i Belfast. Jag hade turen att träffa David Ervine under den tiden som just hade startat ett nytt parti vid namn Progressive Unionist Party, do glömde att före bomben i Dockand att det skedde ett ledar skifte inom IRA och av händelse i Derry som RUC tabbade bröt vapenvilan som ledde till bombattentat
David
21 nov. 2021
THE I, THE I THE IRA! Tiocfaidh ár lá
Johan
16 jan. 2024
En fantastisk, fascinerande och tragisk berättelse om en ung mor som blev mördad med mycket intressant information om konflikten i Nordirland. Det är svårt men viktigt att förstå hur vanliga människor kan mörda sina grannar när det handlar om politik.
Martin
20 maj 2023
Hade kunnat vara hälften så lång. Men mycket lärorikt om IRA.
Robin
11 nov. 2020
Den var okej. Uppläsaren hade en svår dialekt att hänga med i.
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