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The Blackwater lightship

It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora have come together, after a decade of estrangement, to tend to Helen's beloved brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. Under the crumbling roof of Dora's old house, Declan's two friends join the women as each waits for the end. The six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other. The Blackwater Lightship is a beautifully written, deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn a tragic, untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm TOibIn explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. His fourth novel is about morals and manners, and the clashes of culture and personality. But most of all, it is a novel about the incomparable capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds.

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  • "Nell'Irlanda degli anni Novanta, tre donne raggiungono, dopo anni di conflitti, risentimento e silenzi, una pace incerta e fragile. Occasione dell'inaspettata riunione che le porterà a vivere sotto lo stesso tetto, anche se per un breve periodo, è la malattia di Declan, l'adorato fratello di Helen. Declan, malato grave di Aids, chiede di poter trascorrere alcuni giorni nella casa della nonna materna assieme, oltre alla nonna, alla madre, alla sorella, a due cari amici. I sei personaggi, di generazioni e credo diversi, sono così costretti a una convivenza che si trasformerà presto in un viaggio della memoria e in un'avventura della conoscenza sia della propria identità che di quella degli altri. (Alice)."
  • "It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother Lily, and her grandmother Dora have come together, after a decade of estrangement, to tend to Helen's beloved brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. Under the crumbling roof of Dora's old house, Declan's two friends join the women as each waits for the end. The six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other. The Blackwater Lightship is a beautifully written, deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn a tragic, untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm TOibIn explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. His fourth novel is about morals and manners, and the clashes of culture and personality. But most of all, it is a novel about the incomparable capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds."@en
  • "Helen, her mother, and her grandmother come together to care for Helen's terminally ill brother."
  • "Drie generaties vrouwen beginnen na jaren van onverschilligheid en zelfs haat voor het eerst weer met elkaar te praten door de naderende dood van een homoseksueel familielid aan aids."
  • "With AIDS about to claim a well-loved young man, three generations of his family are reunited at his bedside in Ireland, in a novel that explores the nature of love and the complex interrelationships among family members."
  • "With AIDS about to claim a well-loved young man, three generations of his family are reunited at his bedside in Ireland, in a novel that explores the nature of love and the complex interrelationships among family members."@en

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  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Authors' autographs (Provenance)"@en
  • "Tekstuitgave"
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  • "Psychological fiction"

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  • "The Blackwater lightship"@en
  • "The Blackwater lightship"
  • "The blackwater lighship"@en
  • "Le bateau-phare de Blackwater"
  • "The blackwater lightship"
  • "The blackwater lightship"@en
  • "Das Feuerschiff von Blackwater : Roman"
  • "El faro de Blackwater"
  • "El faro de Blackwater"@es
  • "Migdalor"
  • "The blackwater lightship [pbk]"
  • "El Faro de Blackwater"
  • "A luz do farol"
  • "The blackwater lightship : a novel"
  • "Le bateau-phare de Blackwater : roman"
  • "The blackwater lightship : [a novel]"
  • "Blackwater Fyrskib : roman"
  • "Blackwater Fyrskib : roman"@da
  • "The Blackwater Lightship"
  • "Het lichtschip van Blackwater"
  • "Il faro di Blackwater : [romanzo]"
  • "מגדלור"
  • "Das Feuerschiff von Blackwater"
  • "Il faro di Blackwater"@it

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