Blood-Dark Track - A Family History

Joseph O''Neill''s grandfathers - one Irish, one Turkish - were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA and was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O''Neill''s other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy. At the age of thirty, Joseph O''Neill set out to uncover his grandfather''s stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families and two charismatic but flawed men - it is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia and fear, of memories of violence and of fierce commitments to political causes.

About the author

Joseph O’Neill lives in New York and teaches at Bard College. He is the author of four novels, Netherland (longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2008),The Dog, This Is the Life and The Breezes, as well as a memoir, Blood-Dark Track. His short stories have been published in the New Yorker and Harper’s, and his literary criticism has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, the Irish Times, the Atlantic, Granta and other publications.

Summary

A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, ‘Netherland’.

Product details

• Authors: &apos, Joseph Neill, O&apos, Joseph O’Neill, Joseph O’Neill, Joseph O'Neill, Joseph O''neill
• Publisher: Harper Perennial UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.04.2009
• EAN: 9780007309252
• ISBN: 978-0-00-730925-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, History: specific events & topics, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Ireland, Turkey, Family history, tracing ancestors, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), History: specific events and topics, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Biography: historical, political and military, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Family History & Genealogy