Mother Of Pearl

Zusatztext

MOTHER OF PEARL, the first novel by an acclaimed Irish short-story writer, explores the disturbing territory of the divided self. Through the story of the kidnapping of a baby, the notion of personal history as received fiction is examined. The novel asks: what makes a family? Is it mere kinship through blood, or something more profound and intricate? What keeps it together? What tears it apart? The action of the novel is seen through the eyes of a baby's mother, the kidnapper and the child itself. Dramatic, blackly funny and tragically topical, MOTHER OF PEARL is a remarkable achievement.

Autorenportrait

Mary Morrissy has published three novels <i>Mother of Pearl</i>,<i>The Pretender</i>and<i>The Rising of Bella Casey</i> and a collection of short stories,<i>A Lazy Eye</i>(1993). She has won a Hennessy Award and a Lannan Literary Foundation Award and currently teaches at University College Cork.

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