Say Nothing

A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

ONE OF DUA LIPA'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

‘The best book I’ve read for a while, it’s fantastic’ John Oliver

‘A must read’ Gillian Flynn

One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this terrible crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades.

In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patrick Radden Keefe offers not just a forensic account of a brutal crime but a vivid portrait of the world in which it happened. The tragedy of an entire country is captured in the spellbinding narrative of a handful of characters, presented in lyrical and unforgettable detail.

A poem by Seamus Heaney inspires the title: ‘Whatever You Say, Say Nothing’. By defying the culture of silence, Keefe illuminates how a close-knit society fractured; how people chose sides in a conflict and turned to violence; and how, when the shooting stopped, some ex-combatants came to look back in horror at the atrocities they had committed, while others continue to advocate violence even today.

Say Nothing deftly weaves the stories of Jean McConville and her family with those of Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA as a front-line soldier, who bombed the Old Bailey when barely out of her teens; Gerry Adams, who helped bring an end to the fighting, but denied his own IRA past; Brendan Hughes, a fearsome IRA commander who turned on Adams after the peace process and broke the IRA’s code of silence; and other indelible figures. By capturing the intrigue, the drama and the profound human cost of the Troubles, the book presents a searing chronicle of the lengths that people are willing to go to in pursuit of a political ideal, and the ways in which societies mend – or don’t – in the aftermath of a long and bloody conflict.

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14h 43min

Språk:

Engelska

Utgiven:

2018-11-01

Förlag ljudbok:

HarperCollins UK

ISBN ljudbok:

9780008159283

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Mycket intressant beskrivning av bakgrunden och efterspelet till the troubles. Bra uppläsare men med en ibland svårförstålig Nordirlänsk accent.

Peder Zetterberg

Great narrator, great story

Hannes

Really excellent. I’ve intended to read this book for some time, enjoying the other work of Patrick Raden Keefe. Being from Belfast and growing up surrounded by the events of the troubles and the accounts of the disappeared, I’ve been somewhat reluctant to start this book, concerned that a muddled effort would lower my view of the authors other work. This has only been reinforced by accusations of bias in reviews left by other reviewers obviously from NI. Thankfully these reviews are quite obviously partisan and reflect the political expectations of those who leave the reviews. This book successfully addresses the complexities and nuances of the troubles and the ambiguity that exists in every controversial death from the time. The nuance in the depictions of the McConville murder, it’s the human impact, Adams, Hughes, the Prices is deeply satisfying in its fullness and contrast to tabloid depictions of these characters and it is the benefit of being the outsider in Raden’s favour

James

Very interesting and comprehensive book over Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Petteri