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The Butchers

- Winner of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize
Af: Ruth Gilligan Engelsk Paperback

The Butchers

- Winner of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize
Af: Ruth Gilligan Engelsk Paperback
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***WINNER of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize***

''I binged it like a Netflix show... It''s stunning'' Luke Kennard, author of The Transition
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A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades before. It shows a slaughter house in rural Ireland, a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, a meat hook suspended from the ceiling - and, from its sharp point, the lifeless body of a man hanging by his feet.

The story of who he is and how he got there casts back into Irish folklore, of widows cursing the land and of the men who slaughter its cattle by hand. But modern Ireland is distrustful of ancient traditions, and as the BSE crisis in England presents get-rich opportunities in Ireland, few care about The Butchers, the eight men who roam the country, slaughtering the cows of those who still have faith in the old ways. Few care, that is, except for Fionn, the husband of a dying woman who still believes; their son Davey, who has fallen in love with the youngest of the Butchers; Gra, the lonely wife of one of the eight; and her 12-year-old daughter, Una, a girl who will grow up to carry a knife like her father, and who will be the one finally to avenge the man in the photograph.

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***WINNER of the 2021 RSL Ondaatje Prize***

''I binged it like a Netflix show... It''s stunning'' Luke Kennard, author of The Transition
______________________________

A photograph is hung on a gallery wall for the very first time since it was taken two decades before. It shows a slaughter house in rural Ireland, a painting of the Virgin Mary on the wall, a meat hook suspended from the ceiling - and, from its sharp point, the lifeless body of a man hanging by his feet.

The story of who he is and how he got there casts back into Irish folklore, of widows cursing the land and of the men who slaughter its cattle by hand. But modern Ireland is distrustful of ancient traditions, and as the BSE crisis in England presents get-rich opportunities in Ireland, few care about The Butchers, the eight men who roam the country, slaughtering the cows of those who still have faith in the old ways. Few care, that is, except for Fionn, the husband of a dying woman who still believes; their son Davey, who has fallen in love with the youngest of the Butchers; Gra, the lonely wife of one of the eight; and her 12-year-old daughter, Una, a girl who will grow up to carry a knife like her father, and who will be the one finally to avenge the man in the photograph.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9781786499462
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1786499460
Kategori: Irland
Udg. Dato: 17 jun 2021
Længde: 32mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: Atlantic Books
Oplagsdato: 17 jun 2021
Forfatter(e): Ruth Gilligan
Forfatter(e) Ruth Gilligan

Kategori Irland

ISBN-13 9781786499462

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 304

Udgave

Længde 32mm

Bredde 196mm

Højde 129mm

Udg. Dato 17 jun 2021

Oplagsdato 17 jun 2021

Forlag Atlantic Books