Thirsty Ghosts (Martin Emer)(Paperback / softback)

"Flann O'Brien shot through with Guillermo del Toro. . . . A wild, magnificent book." --Sunday Business Post "To say Emer Martin's fifth novel is epic would be an understatement." --Sunday Independent "There is ambition and then there is the Great Irish Novel kind of ambition that is in Emer Martin's Thirsty Ghosts ... A fine balance of the savagely funny and heartbreaking." --Bookseller Emer Martin is an original, radical and vital voice in Irish writing who challenges the history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and the mistreatment of women across mid twentieth-century Ireland. Two families intertwine in this energetic new work, an epic intergenerational saga that began with The Cruelty Men (2018) and continues here as punk rockers and Catholic laundries collide and spiral forward into a post-colonial Ireland still
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