{"product_id":"hugo-hamilton-conversation-with-the-sea-2025-paperback","title":"Hugo Hamilton: Conversation with the Sea [2025] paperback","description":"Hugo Hamilton is a master at evoking placelessness, and in this hypnotic, passionate and\u003cbr\u003eurgent novel, he cuts a clean line to the truth of our mindless moment - truly a book for\u003cbr\u003eour time. - Paul Lynch\u003cbr\u003eDescription\u003cbr\u003eFleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of\u003cbr\u003ehis honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and\u003cbr\u003ehis daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with\u003cbr\u003ehis journal as his sole companion.\u003cbr\u003eHis inherited memory of the Nazi Holocaust comes face to face with the present when he\u003cbr\u003emeets a refugee from a recent warzone. As Lukas communes with the elements in this\u003cbr\u003ewild coastal place, he is forced into a confrontation with the past that will carry him to the\u003cbr\u003eedge of existence.\u003cbr\u003eConversation with the Sea speaks with heart-rending tenderness to the present moment,\u003cbr\u003eas it explores truth, illusion and the deadly silencing of war in a captivating tale of love in\u003cbr\u003ea time of displacement.\u003cbr\u003eIn the vein of such authors as C laire Keegan, C olm Tóibín, Paul Lynch, Anne Enright.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a novel that speaks poignantly to the present moment in time, on themes of war,\u003cbr\u003econflict and inter-generational trauma.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews\u003cbr\u003e''Hugo Hamilton is a master at evoking placelessness, and in this hypnotic, passionate\u003cbr\u003eand urgent novel, he cuts a clean line to the truth of our mindless moment - truly a\u003cbr\u003ebook for our time.'' - Paul Lynch\u003cbr\u003e''I don''t think I''ve ever read a book as wise, or as moving. It''s replete with images that\u003cbr\u003eI know will stay with me forever: the red dots; the motorcycling couple; the pinkjacketed\u003cbr\u003eU-bahn man; the flung suitcases; the women on the truck; and Lukas''s almost\u003cbr\u003eghostly, liminal presence in his own story, as he tries and tries to give coherence to the\u003cbr\u003einchoate; to work his grief and trauma into some kind of resolution. His pain and his\u003cbr\u003eyearning lift up from every line, and what lines they are. This is a book of Everything:\u003cbr\u003elove, family, home, war, migration, loss; at once and by turns gentle and ferocious,\u003cbr\u003eluminous and dark, and ultimately filled with hope. I feel changed by this novel, and I\u003cbr\u003ewill treasure it forever.'' - Donal Ryan\u003cbr\u003e''\u003cbr\u003eThis novel was just waiting for Hugo Hamilton to come along and write it. Set in the\u003cbr\u003ewest of Ireland, it is both local and displaced, folkloric and modern. Told with\u003cbr\u003eHamilton''s signature purity of tone, this is an epic story about how love and history\u003cbr\u003eintersect.'' - Anne Enright\u003cbr\u003e''Hugo Hamilton has written a magnificent book. Conversation with the Sea is as\u003cbr\u003ecompulsive as it is lyrical, deeply moving, utterly readable, bursting with life. The plot\u003cbr\u003eis devious and seductive; the prose takes your breath away - it towers over\u003cbr\u003econtemporary fiction. A triumph.'' - Frank McGuinness\u003cbr\u003eAuthor Biography\u003cbr\u003eHugo Hamilton is the best-selling author of The Speckled People, a memoir of his German-\u003cbr\u003eIrish childhood in Dublin, growing up with his German mother and prohibited by his\u003cbr\u003erevolutionary Irish father from speaking English. It was translated into twenty languages\u003cbr\u003eand adapted for stage at the Gate Theatre. He has published ten novels including Dublin\u003cbr\u003ePalms and The Pages, a collection of short stories, and a second memoir The Sailor in the\u003cbr\u003eWardrobe. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker. He has won numerous literary\u003cbr\u003eawards for his work including the Prix Femina in France and the Bundesverdienstkreuz\u003cbr\u003eorder of merit, awarded by the German state for his exploration of cultural diversity.\u003cbr\u003eHamilton is a member of Aosdána and lives in Dublin.","brand":"Hamilton, Hugo","offers":[{"title":"Good","offer_id":51984331735379,"sku":"XG81399752107","price":13.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Like New","offer_id":51984331702611,"sku":"XE81399752107","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":51984331768147,"sku":"XV81399752107","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"New","offer_id":50996591919443,"sku":"9781399752107","price":7.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hamilton-hugo-hugo-hamilton-conversation-with-the-sea-2025-paperback-9781399752107-1167405946.jpeg?v=1758904370","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/hugo-hamilton-conversation-with-the-sea-2025-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}