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A Ghost in the Throat
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A true original. In this stunningly unusual prose debut, Doireann Ni Ghriofa sculpts essay and autofiction to explore inner life and the deep connection felt between two writers centuries apart. In the 1700s, an Irish noblewoman, on discovering her husband has been murdered, drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary poem. In the present day, a young mother narrowly avoids tragedy. On encountering the poem, she becomes obsessed with its parallels with her own life, and sets out to track down the rest of the story. A devastating and timeless tale about one woman freeing her voice by reaching into the past and finding another's.
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"Ní Ghríofa's lyrical prose loops back on itself through many recurring images and sounds...this is noticeably a poet's first prose venture, and all the better for that."
"This is a remarkable achievement."
"Earning well-deserved accolades abroad, the book merges memoir, history, biography, autofiction, and literary analysis ..."
"She is particularly good on the joys and traumas of childbirth, female desire and the ravages life can visit on the female body ..."
"a powerful, bewitching blend of memoir and literary investigation ..."
"ardent, shape-shifting ..."
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