4.5
Geschiedenis
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.
© 2018 William Collins (Luisterboek): 9780008159283
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 1 november 2018
4.5
Geschiedenis
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.
© 2018 William Collins (Luisterboek): 9780008159283
Publicatiedatum
Luisterboek: 1 november 2018
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Petra
14 jun 2023
Ongelooflijk dat de gebeurtenissen die in dit boek beschreven worden echt gebeurd zijn. Vreselijk, de manier waarop mensen elkaar letterlijk naar het leven stonden. Een goed boek voor iedereen die geïnteresseerd is in geschiedenis. We zien tijdens de brexit hoe oude wonden weer opengereten worden en hoe de eerdere tegenstellingen weer boven komen. Deze geschiedenis is helaas nog niet voorbij. Ook daarom is het nuttig om kennis te nemen van dit verhaal.
Rodney
21 aug 2021
Mooi geschreven en goed gedocumenteerd boek. Geeft een duidelijk beeld van the troubles en lijkt neutraal te zijn. Een best ingewikkeld conflict wat niet uitgebreid behandeld word bij de geschiedenis lessen. Maar door dit boek heb ik er wel een duidelijk beeld vam gekregen. De voorlezer met een iers accent geeft het boek een akelig echt gevoel van drama, ook al is net non fictie.
M
27 aug 2021
Interessant boek als je meer over the troubles wilt weten. Wel wat langdradig.
Seada
10 jul 2023
Zeer indrukwekkend. Bijna onwerkelijk dat deze dingen echt gebeurd zijn.
Alan
14 okt 2022
Brilliant & interesting book.
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