by JosephO'Connor (Author)
1865. The American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a young boy she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary. It?s a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole McLaurenson, runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet and the mercurial revolutionary James Con O?Keeffe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army and is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems. Redemption Falls is a tale of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. Packed with music, balladry, poetry and storytelling, this is a riveting historical novel of urgent contemporary resonance, from the author of the internationally best-selling Star of the Sea.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: Airport / Export / Ireland Ed
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Published: 03 May 2007
ISBN 10: 0436206293
ISBN 13: 9780436206290
Book Overview: A tale of hatreds and mercies, of balladry and the blues, of war and peace and the healing power of forgiveness, Redemption is an epic novel and an unforgettable love story, from the author of international best-seller Star of the Sea.
Prizes: Shortlisted for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009 and Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Award 2008.