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SUMMARY:Maggie O’Farrell with "Land" at The Music Hall
DESCRIPTION:Writers On a New England Stage Presents: Maggie O’Farrell with “Land” \nTICKETS\n$48\, includes a copy of the book “Land” \nEvening’s Moderator: Rebecca Lavoie\, NHPR \nhttps://www.themusichall.org/events/maggieofarrell/ \nOn a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic\, Tomás and his reluctant son\, Liam\, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865\, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger\, the task is not an easy one. Tomás\, however\, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster. \nThe British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day\, expecting the work to be completed\, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life\, and those of his family\, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás\, and how is Liam\, aged only ten\, going to finish the mapping\, and get them both home? \nLand is a novel about separation and reunion\, tragedy and recovery\, colonization and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure\, overlapping lives\, ancient woodland\, persistent ghosts\, a particularly loyal dog\, and how\, when it comes to both land and history\, nothing ever goes away. As spellbinding and varied as the landscape that inspired it\, Land is\, above all\, a story of survival\, for our times\, and for all time. \nMaggie O’Farrell was born in Derry\, Northern Ireland\, in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction)\, The Marriage Portrait\, After You’d Gone\, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox\, The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award)\, and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir\, I Am\, I Am\, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh. \n\nWriters On a New England Stage is presented in partnership with New Hampshire Public Radio. Presenting sponsor is the University of New Hampshire.
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LOCATION:The Music Hall\, 28 Chestnut St\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801\, US
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