EAN: 9780007148110

HUGO HAMILTON - GEBRAUCHT THE SPECKLED PEOPLE (...

'This is the most gripping book I've read in ages ... It is beautifully written  fascinating 
disturbing and often very funny.' Roddy Doyle The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton  born and
brought up in Dublin  is a confused place. His father  a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist 
demands his children speak Gaelic  while his mother  a softly spoken German emigrant who has
been marked by the Nazi past  speaks to them in German. He himself wants to speak English.
English is  after all  what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when
they hunt him down in the streets and dub him Eichmann  as they bring him to trial and sentence
him to death at a mock seaside court. Out of this fear and guilt and often comical cultural
entanglements  he tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history
and turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in
liberation  but not before he uncovers the long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his
parents wardrobe. In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland in many years  the
acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story - a deeply moving memoir
about a whole family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.

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