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Informationen zum Autor Joseph O'Connor was born in Dublin. His books include seven previous novels: Cowboys and Indians (Whitbread Prize shortlist)! Desperadoes ! The Salesman ! Inishowen ! Star of the Sea (American Library Association Award! Irish Post Award for Fiction! France's Prix Millepages! Italy's Premio Acerbi! Prix Madeleine Zepter for European novel of the year)! Redemption Falls and Ghost Light (Dublin One City One Book Novel 2011). His fiction has been translated into forty languages. He received the 2012 Irish PEN Award for outstanding achievement in literature and in 2014 he was appointed Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. www.josephoconnorauthor.com Zusammenfassung Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York! the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge! Louisiana! on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a youngster she has not seen in four years! one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war.
