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Lies of Silence
Artikel-Nr:
9780099998105
Veröffentl:
1992
Erscheinungsdatum:
19.11.1992
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Brian Moore
Gewicht:
153 g
Format:
198x131x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Brian Moore was born in Belfast. He emigrated to Canada in 1948 and then moved to California. He twice won the Canadian Governor General's Award for Fiction and has been given a special award from the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author's Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection. The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood - winner of the Sunday Express 1988 Book of the Year - and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Five of his novels have been made into films - The Luck of Ginger Coffey, Catholics, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, Cold Heaven and Black Robe. Brian Moore died in 1999.
When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows that he is planting a bomb that would kill and maim dozens of people. But he also knows that if he doesn't, his wife will be killed.
A tremendously gripping and compulsive read, overshadowed by the dark threat of the IRA.
A tremendously gripping and compulsive read, overshadowed by the dark threat of the IRA.