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The debut novel from National Book Award winner and Booker nominee Colum McCann 'Colum McCann conjures a hugely inventive debut' Observer 'McCann writes equally well about Ireland, America and Mexico, and he links past and present in a finely woven narrative: Songdogs is a vivid, beautifully measured book' Sunday Times __________________ Colum McCann's first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico. The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.
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Songdogs, Colum McCann
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Songdogs
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Colum McCann
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1526617315
- ISBN13
- 9781526617316
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Self-Help, Contemporary Fiction, USA, Parenting, Memories, Parenthood, Past, Ireland, Spain, Photos, Irish Literature, Mothers, Search, Loneliness, Home, Father, Narration, Mexico, Fathers and Sons
- Original title
- Songdogs
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- The debut novel from National Book Award winner and Booker nominee Colum McCann 'Colum McCann conjures a hugely inventive debut' Observer 'McCann writes equally well about Ireland, America and Mexico, and he links past and present in a finely woven narrative: Songdogs is a vivid, beautifully measured book' Sunday Times __________________ Colum McCann's first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico. The story is told in the words of the photographer's only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father's unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.