© Altera Publishing House, 2010
This first novel by the master storyteller Harte has two circular narratives, one set in the 1950s, the other in the present day. At once a social document and a meditation on change, it is the enthralling story of the Dowd family who are uprooted from their home in Killeenduff, Co Sligo, to re-settle as economic migrants in the Midlands, where the industrial development of the bogs is providing jobs and opportunities. The tension between the old traditional way of life and the first stirring of industrialization in rural Ireland is captured graphically. Harte draws on the experience of this own uprooting in this novel, yet without succumbing to sentimentality.
Scotus Press 2006
Translated into: Bulgarian
Jack Harte