Blood-Dark Track

A Family History

Joseph O’Neill

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Perennial Library
09 July 2009

Biography; Biography: historical, political & military; History: specific events & topics; Political oppression & persecution; Family history, tracing ancestors

A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick, ‘Netherland’.

Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers – one Irish, one Turkish – were both imprisoned during the Second World War. The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of small farmers, was an active member of the IRA and was interned with hundreds of his comrades. O'Neill's other grandfather, a hotelier from a tiny and threatened Turkish Christian minority, was imprisoned by the British in Palestine, on suspicion of being a spy.

At the age of thirty, Joseph O'Neill set out to uncover his grandfather's stories, what emerges is a narrative of two families and two charismatic but flawed men – it is a story of murder, espionage, paranoia and fear, of memories of violence and of fierce commitments to political causes.

By: Joseph O’Neill
Imprint: Perennial Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 228g
ISBN: 9780007309252
ISBN 10: 0007309252
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 09 July 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joseph O'Neill is an Irish barrister living in New York. He is the author of three novels, 'Netherland', which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 'This is the Life' and 'The Breezes'.

Reviews for Blood-Dark Track: A Family History

'He uncovers fascinating parallels between the two men, illuminating the ways in which individual lives mesh with history' Sunday Times 'This is a beautifully written and complicated book, in which difficult perceptions are expressed with forensic honesty' Sunday Telegraph 'His thoroughness and energy are phenomenal' London Review of Books 'Blood-Dark Track moves adroitly between Ireland and the Middle East, and interlaces O'Neill's own quest to discover what his grandfathers were up to with fascinating and unfamiliar insights into the history of their times...the result is riveting' Sunday Express 'Surprisingly, considering this charged material, Joseph O'Neill manages to construct an elaborate, patient, almost detached memoir. This is a stealthy, evidential enterprise...a big cat of a book. It creeps up on you, then pounces. And once it has you in its grip, watch out, because it doesn't let go in a hurry' Evening Standard