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Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her life, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards. Meanwhile, the hospital is preparing to close and is evaluating its patients to determine whether they can return to society. Dr. Grene, Roseanne's caretaker, takes a special interest in her case. In his research, he discovers a document written by a local priest that tells a very different story of Roseanne's life than what she recalls. As doctor and patient attempt to understand each other, they begin to uncover long-buried secrets about themselves.… (más)
Roseanne McNulty está a punto de cumplir cien años, pero no conoce su edad con certeza, nadie la conoce. Roseanne se enfrenta a un futuro también incierto puesto que el Hospital de Roscommon, en el que ha pasado la mayor parte de su vida adulta, va a ser cerrado. Durante las semanas previas a este acontecimiento perturbador, Roseanne conversa con su psiquiatra, el doctor Grene. La relación entre ambos, discreta pero de confianza después de tantos años, se intensifica y se complica a causa del duelo del doctor Grene por la muerte de su esposa. A través de la alternancia de los diarios de ambos personajes, se va tejiendo una narración profundamente hermosa, y la vida de Roseanne, reflejada en la bruma de la memoria y del recuerdo, se convierte en un recorrido por la historia secreta de Irlanda.
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The greatest imperfection is in out inward sight that is to be ghosts unto our own eyes. --Sir Thomas Browne Christian Morals
Of the numbers who study or at least read history, how few derive any advantage from their labours! . . . Besides there is much uncertainty even in the best authenticated ancient and modern histories; and that love of truth, which in some minds is innate and immutable, necessarily leads to a love of secret memoirs and private anecdotes. --Maria Edgeworth, Preface to Castle Rackrent
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For Margaret Synge
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The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say.
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I carefully peeled off a sprig as recommended in the books in the chapters on propagation, and slipped it in my pocket, feeling almost guilty, as if I were stealing something that didn't belong to me.
Roseanne McNulty, once one of the most beautiful and beguiling girls in County Sligo, Ireland, is now an elderly patient at Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital. As her hundredth year draws near, she decides to record the events of her life, hiding the manuscript beneath the floorboards. Meanwhile, the hospital is preparing to close and is evaluating its patients to determine whether they can return to society. Dr. Grene, Roseanne's caretaker, takes a special interest in her case. In his research, he discovers a document written by a local priest that tells a very different story of Roseanne's life than what she recalls. As doctor and patient attempt to understand each other, they begin to uncover long-buried secrets about themselves.
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