{"product_id":"9781843518631","title":"Thirsty Ghosts","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmer Martin's is a radical, vital voice in Irish writing, as she challenges the history of silence, institutional lies, evasion and the mistreatment of women across mid-to-late twentieth-century Ireland.   Two families inhabit this immersive polyvocal work, an intergenerational saga announced with The Cruelty Men�(2018) and continued here as punk rockers and Magdalene laundries spiral into a post-colonial Ireland still haunted by its tribal undertow. Scenes surface from Ireland's mythological past, Tudor plantations, workhouses and industrial schools, the Troubles laid bare, the transformative pre-digital decades playing out in this propulsive narrative.�Thirsty Ghosts�is epic in scope while intimate in focus.   The Lyons, professionals in a newly independent state, are attacked by paramilitaries in their family home in Tyrone. The eccentric O'Conaills of Kerry, traumatized by displacement, find themselves in leafy Dublin 4. We encounter a servant who meets Henry VIII, a Lithuanian Jewish family who become part of the fabric of Dublin, and a wild young girl who escapes the laundry only to stumble into a psycho pimp.   Related with dark humour, verve and high literary style,�Thirsty Ghosts�is a revelatory exploration of Ireland combining themes of power, class, fertility, violence and deep love, forces as universal as the old stories that permeate and illuminate each character's life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rye Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45464213094621,"sku":"9781843518631","price":16.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0064\/1368\/0730\/files\/9781843518631.jpg?v=1720078865","url":"https:\/\/ryebooks.co.uk\/products\/9781843518631","provider":"Rye Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}