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A Ghost in the Throat
Paperback Edition: 1
A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep connection felt between two writers centuries apart.
In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with its parallels with her own life, and sets out to track down the rest of the story.
Doireann No Ghriofa has sculpted a fluid hybrid of essay and autofiction to explore the ways in which a life can be changed in response to the discovery of another's—in this case, Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill's Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoghaire, famously referred to by Peter Levi as 'the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century.'
A devastating and timeless tale about one woman freeing her voice by reaching into the past and finding another's.
Publisher : Tramp Press
Pages : 224
Publication date : 2020-08-27
Subjects: Fiction, Non-fiction, Published in the UK, Contemporary, Education / Language / ESOL, Literature & Literary Studies, Literary Essays