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A book for your head and your heart.

A powerful novel from one of Ireland’s best writers on the turbulent birth of a nation, and the lovers it divides.

Ireland 1945. Young and beautiful, Iz begins a life on the south-east coast with her new husband. As she settles in to try and make her life by the ever restless sea, circumstances that have brought Iz to the town of Monument are shrouded in mystery. However, history, like the sea cannot stay silent for long. The war in Europe is over, and change is about to brush away the old order. Soaring across the decades that follow Ireland’s newly won independence, sweeping across the fierce class issues and battles over land ownership that once defined Irish society, The Sea and the Silence is an epic love story set inside the fading grandeur of the Anglo-Irish class. …more

Review ebook The Sea and the Silence

“What you ought to be reading”
“You think of yourself as a moderately well-read person. And then you come across a book so brilliant, so moving, so enchanting, by an author you had not even heard of, and your world is henceforth altered. You feel a bit like John Keats when he came across a translation of Homer that knocked him out: “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.”
For me, that new planet is “The Sea and the Silence,” a new novel by Irish writer Pet “What you ought to be reading”
“You think of yourself as a moderately well-read person. And then you come across a book so brilliant, so moving, so enchanting, by an author you had not even heard of, and your world is henceforth altered. You feel a bit like John Keats when he came across a translation of Homer that knocked him out: “Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken.”
For me, that new planet is “The Sea and the Silence,” a new novel by Irish writer Peter Cunningham. First published in Ireland in 2008, the novel recently was published in the United States by Gemma. It begins during World War II and ends in the 1970’s, but the narrative is not straightforward — reminding us that the people we know are likely carrying around worlds inside them, events and emotions we haven’t the foggiest notion of, but ones that very well might be influencing everything they do and are.
“The Sea and the Silence” is a love story, and a war story, and it’s beautifully told in that lilting, low-key style that syncopates the work of so many great Irish writers, such as William Trevor, John McGahern and John Banville: “As I stared, by on of those miracles of light, the sea shone as if all the silver of the world was buried just beneat its surface.”
The last 20 or so pages will hold you especially spellbound. You can sense what’s going to happen but not how — and that, come to think of it, is the way it is with life itself. The end is inescapable: All of us eventually die. But what we do before that moment — whom we love, how we live — is the subject of this brutal, luminous, unforgettable book.”

jikeller@tribune.com

Found this article in the Chicago Tribune just as it appears here.
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