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In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his family, an aspiring novelist, a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. Each is connected more deeply than they can possibly know. But a camouflaged killer is stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. The twenty-six day journey will see many lives end, others begin afresh. In a spellbinding story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the further the ship sails towards the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go.… (más)
El ejemplar fue obsequiado por el presidente de Irlanda en su visita a La Habana. Un thriller histórico con gran potencial comercial y gran rigor literario. En 1847 el Estrella del Mar zarpa hacia Nueva York desde una Irlanda desgarrada por la injusticia y la hambruna. A bordo viajan centenares de emigrantes que oscilan entre el optimismo y la desesperación. Entre ellos, una sirvienta que esconde un secreto abrumador, el arruinado Lord Merridith con su mujer y sus hijos, un aspirante a novelista, un misterioso compositor de baladas revolucionarias... Y un asesino ávido por consumar una venganza ante de que concluyan los veintiséis días que dura la travesía. Una apasionante intriga histórica. ( )
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[The Famine] is a punishment from God for an idle, ungrateful and rebellious country; an indolent and un-self-reliant people. The Irish are suffering from an affliction of God's providence. Charles Trevelyan, Assistant Secretary to Her Majesty's Treasury, 1847 (Knighted, 1848, for overseeing famine relief)
England is truly a great public criminal. England! All England! ... She must be punished; that punishment will, as I believe, come upon her by and through Ireland; and so Ireland will be avenged ... The Atlantic ocean be never so deep as the hell which shall belch down on the oppressors of my race. John Mitchel, Irish nationalist, 1856
THE MISSING LINK: A creature manifestly between the gorilla and the Negro is to be met with in some of the lowest districts of London and Liverpool by adventurous explorers. It comes from Ireland, whence it has contrived to migrate; it belongs in fact to a tribe of Irish savages: the lowest species of Irish Yahoo. When conversing with its kind it talks a sort of gibberish. It is, moreover, a climbing animal, and may sometimes be seen ascending a ladder laden with a hod of bricks. Punch magazine, London, 1862
Providence sent the potato blight but England made the Famine ... We are sick of the canting talk of those who tell us that we must not blame the British people for the crimes of their rulers against Ireland. We do blame them. James Connolly, co-leader of the Easter Rising against British Rule, 1916
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All night long he would walk the ship, from bow to stern, from dusk until quarterlight, that sticklike limping man from Connemara with the drooping shoulders and ash-coloured clothes.
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In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among them are a maidservant with a devastating secret, bankrupt Lord Merridith and his family, an aspiring novelist, a maker of revolutionary ballads, all braving the Atlantic in search of a new home. Each is connected more deeply than they can possibly know. But a camouflaged killer is stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. The twenty-six day journey will see many lives end, others begin afresh. In a spellbinding story of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the further the ship sails towards the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past which will never let them go.
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Un thriller histórico con gran potencial comercial y gran rigor literario.
En 1847 el Estrella del Mar zarpa hacia Nueva York desde una Irlanda desgarrada por la injusticia y la hambruna. A bordo viajan centenares de emigrantes que oscilan entre el optimismo y la desesperación. Entre ellos, una sirvienta que esconde un secreto abrumador, el arruinado Lord Merridith con su mujer y sus hijos, un aspirante a novelista, un misterioso compositor de baladas revolucionarias... Y un asesino ávido por consumar una venganza ante de que concluyan los veintiséis días que dura la travesía. Una apasionante intriga histórica. (