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Troubles (Empire Trilogy, #1)

J.G. Farrell,

John Banville (Introduction)

Start date: November 1, 2023

Finish date: November 30, 2023

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Nov 11, 2023 Kristel rated it it was amazing

Shelves: historical-fiction, 1001-books, 1001-challenge, booker-prize

Reason Read: 2023/November botm
I've owned this one for awhile and I liked the previous novel by Farrell that I read but never seemed to get around to reading this one.
This is the Lost Booker that was awarded for books of 1970 that never got a chance to win the Booker. Farrell wrote this Trilogy about the British Empire and the end of that empire. In this one, we are emersed in "the troubles" which was an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 196 ...more

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Dec 27, 2020 Rosemary rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Major Brendan Archer, released from the army at the end of the First World War, half-heartedly seeks out the woman who considers herself engaged to him, whose father owns a rundown hotel in Ireland. The engagement comes to an untimely end, but the Majestic and its inhabitants and neighbours draw him back, and he witnesses the slow crumbling of the hotel alongside the crumbling of British rule in Ireland. The storm of Irish protest becomes more and more violent, and yet no one can seem to leave.

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