by Hugo Hamilton · Fourth Estate · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007148110
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«The Speckled People» is Hugo Hamilton's memoir, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Hugo Hamilton recalls his childhood in Dublin between the Gaelic imposed by his father, an Irish nationalist, and the German of his mother, a German emigrant who escaped Nazism. The boy only wants to speak English, the language of the street and of the children who harass him, while trying to understand his family history and his parents' secrets.
The book was awarded the Prix Femina Étranger in 2004 and is set in twentieth-century Ireland.
For readers of memoirs and narrative on identity, language and migration, with an interest in twentieth-century Irish history.
Hugo P. Hamilton is an Irish writer. Hamilton was born and raised in Dublin with an Irish father and a German mother.
