Our Fathers: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian
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Jamie returns to Scotland with his grandfather, the legendary social reformer Hugh Bawn, now living out his last days on the eighteenth floor of a high-rise. The young may is faced with the unquiet story of a country he thought he had left behind and now he listens to the voices of ghosts, and what they say about his own life. It is a story of love and landscape, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left. Jamie Bawn's journey home will leave him changed beyond words - beyond the words that darkened his childhood.
Author: Andrew O'Hagan
Format: Paperback, 304 pages, 127mm x 197mm, 193 g
Published: 2004, Faber & Faber, United Kingdom
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Description
Jamie returns to Scotland with his grandfather, the legendary social reformer Hugh Bawn, now living out his last days on the eighteenth floor of a high-rise. The young may is faced with the unquiet story of a country he thought he had left behind and now he listens to the voices of ghosts, and what they say about his own life. It is a story of love and landscape, of nationality and strong drink, of Catholic faith and the end of the old left. Jamie Bawn's journey home will leave him changed beyond words - beyond the words that darkened his childhood.
Our Fathers: From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller Caledonian