I Could Read the Sky av Timothy O'Grady

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<p><strong>¿Think about a tune ¿ the unsayable, the invisible, the longing in music. Here is a book of tunes without musical notes ¿ It wrings the heart¿ John Berger</strong></p><p><strong>¿A masterpiece¿ Robert Macfarlane</strong></p><p><strong>¿O¿Grady does not just respond to Pyke¿s stark, beautiful photographs: he gives voice to thousands¿ Louise Kennedy</strong></p><p><strong>¿The experience of Irish emigration uniquely and powerfully illuminated¿ Mark Knopfler</strong></p><p><strong>¿If the words tell the story of the voiceless, the bleak lovely photographs show their faces. Fiction rarely gets as close to the messy, glorious truth as do memories and photographs. This rare novel dares to use both¿ Charlotte Mendelson, <em>TLS</em></strong></p><p>An old man lies alone and sleepless in London. Before dawn he is taken by an image from his childhood in the West of Ireland, and begins to remember a migrant¿s life. Haunted by the faces and the land he left behind, he calls forth the ba