Hand in the Fire

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by Hugo Hamilton | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 0007324839 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingLindasauruswing of Wien - irgendwo / Vienna - somewhere, Wien Austria on 7/19/2018
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Journal Entry 1 by wingLindasauruswing from Wien - irgendwo / Vienna - somewhere, Wien Austria on Thursday, July 19, 2018
About the book:
"The voice is that of Vid Cosic, a Serbian immigrant whose immediate friendship with a young Dublin lawyer, Kevin Concannon, is overshadowed by a violent incident in which a man is left for dead in the street one night. The legal fallout forces them into an ever closer, uncertain partnership, drawing Vid right into the Concannon family, working for them as a carpenter on a major renovation project and becoming more and more involved in their troubled family story.

While he claims to have lost his own memory in a serious accident back home in Serbia, he cannot help investigating the emerging details of a young woman from Connemara who was denounced by the church and whose pregnant body was washed up on the Aran Islands many years ago. Was it murder or suicide? And what dark impact does this event in the past still have on the Concannon family now?

As the deadly echo of hatred and violence begins to circle closer around them, Vid finds this spectacular Irish friendship coming under increasing threat with fatal consequences.

Drawing on his own speckled, Irish-German background, Hugo Hamilton has given us a highly compelling and original view of contemporary Ireland, the nature of welcome and the uneasy trespassing into a new country."

Addendum:
I read this book for my bookclub, but have to say I really didn't like it and didn't enjoy it at all. It was just to pessimistic - and he was the poor imigrant who didn't fit in at all...
"'Keep your tongue in the middle of your mouth', I said and she laughed. But it wasn't my own joke. It was something Kevin had said to me when we went fishing together. I copied things like that from other people. but I couldn't get them to sound right no matter how much I practised. I was always a secondhand man. There was a while when I tried to learn a few jokes off by heart, but they never worked either. Even when I got the punchline correct, there was always something awkward about the way I told it in my accent that was just not funny. Nobody ever laughed. And if they did, it was only out of politeness. It was easier to get them to laugh at me."
Paragraphs like that made the book so annoying to me - he was always pitying himself...

Journal Entry 2 by wingLindasauruswing at Wien Bezirk 10 - Favoriten, Wien Austria on Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Released 5 yrs ago (10/24/2018 UTC) at Wien Bezirk 10 - Favoriten, Wien Austria

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This book travels to a Bookcrosser in the Czech Republic! Enjoy! I hope you like it better than I did!

Journal Entry 3 by Lenka_Tomas_cz at Praha 3, Praha Czech Republic on Monday, November 19, 2018
Pondělí 19. 11. svátek má Alžběta zůstat přihlášen(a)

Hello the BC. CAMERAD, Linda from Vienna (*Austria ) thank you very much & Díky for the receipt of this book!
It' s a wish book ! "Thx"
I'm looking forward to reading, soon in time

Hallo die BC. KAMERAD ,Linda aus Wien in Österreich, Ich danke dir sehr für den Erhalt desses Buches ! Das eines Wunsch des Buches war :-) Ich freue mich zu lesen ,bald in Zeit :-)

"Ganz eines schöne grasse Gruss nach Wien zu dir hin :-)

Journal Entry 4 by Lenka_Tomas_cz at Braunschweig, Niedersachsen Germany on Wednesday, April 19, 2023

Released 11 mos ago (4/20/2023 UTC) at Braunschweig, Niedersachsen Germany

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A Story about a Serbien who wents to dublin...

That followed me a time into myself, read it , u want see**!*)


Wednesday April 19, 2023

we/ i would have liked to write more about the book, how it was, what impressed me, but unfortunately i don't remember. Now it has been with me / us long enough and may continue to travel in my "surprise book Easter gift box" to new readers: bc users; BS - Wenden, in Braunschweig! you book, read a good trip.

Journal Entry 5 by wingBS-Wendenwing at IKEA - Bücherregal in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen Germany on Saturday, April 22, 2023

Released 11 mos ago (4/29/2023 UTC) at IKEA - Bücherregal in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen Germany

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... geht jetzt auf die Reise und möchte eine/n neue/n Leser/in unterhalten!

Ich freue mich, wenn ich hier mitverfolgen kann, wie es diesem Buch weiterhin ergeht!

Gute Reise Buch, komm weit rum und lass wieder von dir hören!

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