The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood by Hugo Hamilton

The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

Hugo Hamilton

304 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction memoir challenging reflective slow-paced
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"We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are forbidden from speaking English. We are trapped in a language war. We are the Speckled People." In one of the most original memoirs to emerge in years, Hugo Hamilton tells the haunting story of his Ger...

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