Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Land by Maggie O'Farrell is haunting tale set in post-famine Ireland about history, map-making and memory

(Version anglaise seulement)

par David Nally, University Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge

Maggie O’Farrell’s exquisite new novel, Land, is a haunting tale of loss, endurance and renewal. Spanning generations and continents, O’Farrell traces the fragile threads that connect people and place: stories half remembered, names erased, objects carried forward like talismans against oblivion, ghosts that haunt the edges of memory, music that conjures grazed fields and the wind-scratched surface of water. Moving between intimacy and sweeping historical change, the novel reveals the land itself as a living archive of rupture, survival, and belonging.

Land…

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