Speckled People
Speckled People We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are trapped in a language war. We are forbidden from speaking English. In one of the most original memoirs to emerge in years, Hugo Hamilton…
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Speckled People
We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are trapped in a language war. We are forbidden from speaking English.
In one of the most original memoirs to emerge in years, Hugo Hamilton tells the haunting story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950s Dublin. We are the Speckled People. His Gaelic-speaking, Irish nationalist father rules the home with tyranny, while his German-speaking mother rescues her children with cakes and stories of her own struggle against Nazi Germany.
Out on the streets of Dublin is another country, where they are taunted as Nazis and subjected to a mock Nuremberg trial. Through the eyes of a child, this rare and shockingly honest book gradually makes sense of family, language, and identity, unlocking at last the secrets that his parents kept in the
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