Sunrise with Sea Monster by Neil Jordan (Hardcover)

“Imprisoned in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Donal Gore is sustained by memories of setting fishing lines on the beach with his father, back home in Ireland. Gradually, with his memories, the events that brought him there emerge, the personal and political betrayals which are his heritage and, it seems, his destiny. Released from the Spanish prison by a German officer, who expects political intelligence in return, Donal goes home to the house on the rainswept promenade in Bray – to find his once powerful and political father dramatically changed.
The moving and magical heart of the novel explores the hopeless inability of these two men to express their feelings for one another – until the father is literally beyond language. And at the same time it centres on the poignant, fumbling triangular relationship between father, son and Rose, the beautiful young stepmother. Political deception follows on personal as Donal is drawn into the lunatic world of wartime politics in the Irish Free State.
Weaving together love and politics, sex and treachery, unsettling humour and vivid layers of memory, Sunrise with Sea Monster is a tour de force – a haunting and beautiful novel set in a climate of betrayal.”

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