{"product_id":"dioreann-ni-ghriofa-a-ghost-in-the-throat","title":"Doireann Ni Ghriofa | A Ghost In The Throat","description":"\u003cp\u003e9781916434271\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e28\/10\/21\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePB\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e336 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWINNER Book of the Year, the Irish Book Awards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWINNER Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED Rathbones Folio Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED Desmond Elliot Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSHORTLISTED Gordon Burn Prize\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are thrilled to announce that \u003cem\u003eA Ghost in the Throat\u003c\/em\u003e has been shortlisted for the prestigious Michel Déon award!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI am eleven, a dark-haired child given to staring out window … Her voice makes it 1773, a fine day in May, and puts English soldiers crouching in ambush; I add ditch-water to drench their knees. Their muskets point towards a young man who is falling from his saddle in slow, slow motion. A woman hurries in and kneels over him, her voice rising in an antique formula of breath and syllable the teacher calls a caoineadh,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ea keen to lament the dead.’\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA true original, this stunning prose debut by Doireann Ní Ghríofa weaves two stories together. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem that reaches across the centuries to another poet. In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy in her own life. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with finding out the rest of the story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoireann Ní Ghríofa has sculpted a fluid hybrid of essay and autofiction to explore the ways in which a life can be changed in response to the discovery of another’s – in this case, Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill’s Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire, famously referred to by Peter Levi as ‘the greatest poem written in either Ireland or Britain during the eighteenth century.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA devastating and timeless tale about finding your voice by freeing another’s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tramp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57233572921726,"sku":"9781916434271","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0983\/7608\/files\/2_517773f2-cb7b-404e-a229-269ab57c7911.webp?v=1775822726","url":"https:\/\/www.leftfordeadshop.co.uk\/products\/dioreann-ni-ghriofa-a-ghost-in-the-throat","provider":"Left For Dead","version":"1.0","type":"link"}