© Éditions Joëlle Losfeld
Bolger's latest novel describes an extraordinary family, the Goold Verschoyles, in the period between the outbreak of the First World War and the end of the Second. The Goold Verschoyles are a product of the Anglo-Irish ascendency. They sense their privileges eroding, their traditional way of life coming to an end. A new generation, born in the early years of the twentieth century, sets out to find meaning in the world. The boys, Art, Brendan and Thomas, will find it through politics of one sort or another, through the embracing of causes. Maud will emigrate to South Africa. And it will fall to Eva to attempt to maintain continuity with the past.
Fourth Estate 2005
Translated into: French
Aisling Glynn
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