Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir of Love and Loss

by EilisNiDhuibhne (Author)

Synopsis

`In the end, I learn what I have always known: the only link to the dead is what is documented, written down or otherwise recorded. I haven't found any deeper insight, or any other way of making contact with the past or the dead.' Eilis Ni Dhuibhne's candid and moving memoir tells the story of her thirty-year relationship with the love of her life, internationally renowned folklorist Bo Almquist, capturing brilliantly the compromises and adjustments and phases of their relationship, and of how he died. 'Twelve Thousand Days' is a remarkable story about love and grief, shot through with wry and sharp observations on Irish life, culture and morality.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 288
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Blackstaff Press Ltd
Published: 06 Sep 2018

ISBN 10: 1780731736
ISBN 13: 9781780731735

Author Bio
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne has published over twenty-five books, including six collections of short stories, several novels, books for children, and plays. She has won three Bisto awards, an IBBY award, a Readers' Association of Ireland award, several Oireachtas awards for novels in Irish, and the Butler Award for The Dancers Dancing, which was also shortlisted for the Orange Prize. In 2015 she was awarded the Irish PEN award for her outstanding contribution to Irish literature, and in 2016 she was given a Hennessy Hall of Fame award for lifetime achievement. She is a member of Aosdana, an ambassador for the Irish Writers' Centre, and President of the Folklore of Ireland Society (An Cumann le Bealoideas Eireann).