In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland in many years, the acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story – a deeply moving memoir about a whole family's homesickness for a country they can call their own. It is a journey that ends in liberation, but not before he uncovers the long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents wardrobe. A deeply moving memoir about a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place: His. See All Available Copies See All Available Copies. Out of this fear and guilt and often comical cultural entanglements, he tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. The memoir of Hugo Hamilton, which details his life as a young boy growing up in Dublin and his familys homesickness for a country they can call their own.

English is what they use when they hunt him down in the streets and dub him Eichmann, as they bring him to trial and sentence him to death at a mock seaside court. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, speaks to them in German. It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.' Roddy Doyle The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. 'This is the most gripping book I've read in ages.

The Speckled People by Hugo Hamilton