One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year BEST NONFICTION
BOOK OF THE YEAR - TIME MAGAZINE ONE OF THE BEST 10 BOOKS OF THE
YEAR - WASHINGTON POST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK
CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED
FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Masked intruders dragged Jean
McConville, a 38-year-old widow and mother of 10, from her Belfast
home in 1972. In this meticulously reported book -- as finely paced
as a novel -- Keefe uses McConville's murder as a prism to tell the
history of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Interviewing people on
both sides of the conflict, he transforms the tragic damage and
waste of the era into a searing, utterly gripping saga. - New York
Times Book Review, Ten Best Books of the Year From award-winning
New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate
narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its
devastating repercussions In December 1972, Jean McConville, a
thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast
home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They
never saw her again. Her abduction was one of the most notorious
episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in
the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate
of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years
after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set
of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children
knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was
attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it
handy for diapers or ripped clothes. Patrick Radden Keefe's
mesmerizing book on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland and its
aftermath uses the McConville case as a starting point for the tale
of a society wracked by a violent guerrilla war, a war whose
consequences have never been reckoned with. The brutal violence
seared not only people like the McConville children, but also
I.R.A. members embittered by a peace that fell far short of the
goal of a united Ireland, and left them wondering whether the
killings they committed were not justified acts of war, but simple
murders. From radical and impetuous I.R.A. terrorists such as
Dolours Price, who, when she was barely out of her teens, was
already planting bombs in London and targeting informers for
execution, to the ferocious I.R.A. mastermind known as The Dark, to
the spy games and dirty schemes of the British Army, to Gerry
Adams, who negotiated the peace but betrayed his hardcore comrades
by denying his I.R.A. past--Say Nothing conjures a world of
passion, betrayal, vengeance, and anguish.
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