{"product_id":"9781843518631-thirsty-ghosts","title":"Thirsty Ghosts","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTwo families inhabit this immersive polyvocal work, an intergenerational saga announced with The Cruelty Men (2018) and continued here as punk rockers and Magdalene laundries spiral into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by its tribal undertow.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmer Martin’s is a radical, vital voice in Irish writing, as she challenges the history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and the mistreatment of women across mid-to-late twentieth-century Ireland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo families inhabit this immersive polyvocal work, an intergenerational saga announced with \u003cem\u003eThe Cruelty Men\u003c\/em\u003e (2018) and continued here as punk rockers and Magdalene laundries spiral into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by its tribal undertow. Scenes surface from Ireland’s mythological past, Tudor plantations, workhouses and industrial schools, the Troubles laid bare, the transformative pre-digital decades playing out in this propulsive narrative. \u003cem\u003eThirsty Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e is epic in scope while intimate in focus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Lyons, professionals in a newly independent state, are attacked by paramilitaries in their family home in Tyrone. The eccentric O’Conaills of Kerry, traumatized by displacement, find themselves in leafy Dublin 4. We encounter a servant 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelated with dark humour, verve and high literary style, \u003cem\u003eThirsty Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e is a revelatory exploration of Ireland combining themes of power, class, fertility, violence and deep love, forces as universal as the old stories that permeate and illuminate each character’s life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40967074021473,"sku":"9781843518631","price":17.13,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26724299.jpg?v=1723038559","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781843518631-thirsty-ghosts","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}