The Star Of The Sea
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099455264 (0099455269)
ASIN: 99455269
Publish date: July 3rd 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Mystery,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Modern
the novel is set in a dark time for ireland, in 1847, during the potato famine that starved a million people, and set a further million to seek out new homes outside their native land. the main narrative is a book within a book, which further synthesizes other accounts from a variety of sources (lik...
The second time I read this book. And I have to say, this is a story that definitely improves upon rereading it.
Every now and then a book comes along that I feel passionate about and Joseph O Connor's Star of the Sea is one of those books that tells the harrowing and tragic story of the Irish Potato famine of 1840's Ireland and the voyage of the coffin Ship Star of The Sea to America.I had read this book in ...
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