My Father's House
Published on 31. January 2023
Book
Hardback
440 pages
978-1-60945-835-5 (ISBN)
Description
"September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. Gestapo boss Obersturmbannfèfuher Paul Hauptmann rules with terror. Hunger is widespread. Rumors fester. The war's outcome is far from certain. Diplomats, refugees, and escaped Allied prisoners flee for protection into Vatican City, at one fifth of a square mile the world's smallest state, a neutral, independent country within Rome. A small band of unlikely friends led by a courageous Irish priest is drawn into deadly danger as they seek to help those seeking refuge."--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
486 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60945-835-5 (9781609458355)
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Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House, the critically acclaimed first book in his Rome Escape Line Trilogy was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Walter Scott Prize. Shadowplay was named Novel of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and was a finalist for the prestigious Costa Book Award. His novel Star of the Sea won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is the author of fifteen novels and is the Inaugural Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.