Scéal álainn inste ag gasúr óg a rugadh is a tógadh ar fheirm bheag i nGaeltacht Dhún na nGall ag tús na haoise seo caite. Tá Éire ar tí neamhspléachas a bhaint amach agus tá Dargan Ó Néill ó Bhaile na nGrág sna Rosa i dTír Chonaill ag teacht in inmhe chomh maith. Léargas álainn bíogúil ar gach gné de shaol na tuaithe in Éirinn an uair úd trí shúile an bhuachalla óg. Tá idir ghreann agus ghéire le sonrú ar eachtraí Dhargáin mar a bhuaileann sé le réimse leathan carachtar agus daoine - idir an Lucht Siúil, fhámairí leighis, throdaithe ar son na saoirse, spailpíní agus mhearnéalaigh a fhillean le scéalta iontacha faoin domhan i bhfad i gcéin, cuimsíonn scéal álainn an bhuachalla óig Éireannaigh seo cuimhní agus aislingí na glúine sin.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is a bold vision of a dystopian future, frighteningly real, perfect for fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty. One snowy night in Toronto famous actor Arthur Leander dies on stage whilst performing the role of a lifetime. That same evening a deadly virus touches down in North America. The world will never be the same again. Twenty years later Kirsten, an actress in the Travelling Symphony, performs Shakespeare in the settlements that have grown up since the collapse. But then her newly hopeful world is threatened.
If civilization was lost, what would you preserve? And how far would you go to protect it?
ISBN 9781447268970