The Margellos World Republic of Letters: Graveyard Clay : Cré na Cille (Paperback)

from albertgoldfain

A brutally boring read. The only possible payoff for such a sustained meandering chorus of pissing and moaning would be a heavy dose of Irish humor. It is either missing or has been far lost in translation.

from DavidWineberg

Another time, another place. The Dirty Dust is eavesdropping at a party in the early 1940s in western Ireland. The party goes on forever, with different guests striking up conversations here and there. There is no coherence, no drift, and no point. They are all dead, and this is their cemetery. I...

from pgmcc

The original language of this book is Irish. It was written during World War II and set in the Catholic graveyard of a small Connemara (very rural and remote part of County Galway in the West of Ireland) village where Irish was the only language spoken, not unlike the village where the author, Má...