The Tain

Zusatztext "Carson's landmark translation! the first in forty years! brings this literary gem to life in a fresh! modern retelling that rivals Thomas Kinsella's classic translation of 1969." - Booklist "In vivid prose Carson has harnessed . . . the tale's tremendous artistic power."-Irish Voice Informationen zum Autor Ciaran Carson was born in Belfast in 1948. His poetry collections include The New Estate; The Irish for No, Belfast Confetti , which won the Irish Book Award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize; First Language , which won the T.S. Eliot Prize; Opera et Cetera , which was a UK Poetry Book Society Choice; and The Twelfth of Never and The Ballad of HMS Belfast . He has written two prose books, The Pocket Guide to Irish Traditional Music and Last Night's Fun and one novel, Shamrock Tea . He is a member of Aosdána and lives in Belfast. Klappentext A stunning new translation brings Irelands greatest epic tale alive for a newgeneration. Zusammenfassung Tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, Queen and King of Connacht, and their allies, seeking to carry off the great Brown Bull of Cualige.

Product details

• Authors: Ciaran Carson, PENGUIN PRESS
• Assisted by: Ciaran Carson (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.10.2008
• EAN: 9780140455304
• ISBN: 978-0-14-045530-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics; Penguin Classics; Little Black Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Ireland, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)