The Little Red Chairs
O'Brien Edna
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition
Description: 299 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. When A Wanted War Criminal From The Balkans, Masquerading As A Faith Healer, Settles In A Small Irish Village, The Community Is In Thrall.One Woman, Fidelma Falls Under His Spell
Publishers Description: The much-anticipated new novel from the literary world's master of storytelling, Edna O'Brien.A woman discovers that the foreigner she thinks will redeem her life is a notorious war criminal.Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, Fidelma McBride, becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. All that world is shattered when Vlad is arrested, and his identity as a war criminal is revealed.Fidelma, disgraced, flees to England and seeks work among the other migrants displaced by wars and persecution. But it is not until she confronts him-her nemesis-at the tribunal in The Hague, that her physical and emotional journey reaches its breathtaking climax.THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS is a book about love, and the endless search for it. It is also a book about mankind's fascination with evil, and how long, how crooked, is the road towards Home.
ISBN: 9780571316298
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