Hugo Hamilton – författare & böcker

De spräckliga : en irländsk barndom

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Pocket, Svenska, 2019

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»Vi har inte bara ett språk och en historia. Vi sover på tyska och vi drömmer på iriska. Vi skrattar på iriska och vi gråter på tyska. Vi är tysta på tyska och vi talar på engelska. Vi är spräckliga.»

I sin hyllade memoarbok De spräckliga skildrar Hugo Hamilton sina barndomsår i 1950-talets Dublin. Kluven mellan den obeveklige faderns iriska nationalism och den kärleksfulla moderns tyska förflutna förmedlar författaren med barnets blick en hel familjs längtan efter ett land och ett språk som den kan kalla sitt eget.

Den irländske författaren Hugo Hamilton föddes 1953 i Dublin, där han idag är bosatt och verksam som författare. Sitt stora genombrott fick han med De spräckliga. Förlaget gav 2018 ut den fristående fortsättningen Sjömannen i garderoben.

»De spräckliga är en fängslande och bitvis mycket rolig roman. Barndomsskildringar är nästan omöjliga att skriva utan att det blir antingen sött eller pompöst, men Hamilton hör till de få som lyckats. ... En närmast hisnande berättelse om hur en familj sitter fast i historiens skruvstäd.» Dagens Nyheter

»Hamiltons berättelse är unik.» Norrbottens-Kuriren

»Det är mörkt, tragiskt, varmt och roligt.» Kulturnytt, SR P1

»Fullständigt fri från sentimentalitet skriver Hamilton in sin familj i en historia fylld av språkets sprängkraft och individens envisa motstånd.» Helsingborgs Dagblad

»Hugo Hamiltons stilsäkra roman är i stället en vemodig berättelse om språklig hemlöshet, utanförskap och familjekärlek, helt fri från minsta antydan till bitterhet.» Svenska Dagbladet

Speckled People

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Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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‘This is the most gripping book I've read in ages … It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.’ Roddy DoyleThe childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a sometimes brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic, while his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who has been marked by the Nazi past, speaks to them in German. He himself wants to speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt him down in the streets and dub him Eichmann, as they bring him to trial and sentence him to death at a mock seaside court.Out of this fear and guilt and often comical cultural entanglements, he tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation, but not before he uncovers the long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents wardrobe.In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland in many years, the acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story – a deeply moving memoir about a whole family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.

The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

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Häftad, Engelska, 2004

256 kr

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Last Shot

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Häftad, Engelska, 2006

156 kr

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In this remarkable book, Hugo Hamilton tells the story of individuals caught up in the turbulent last days of World War II.Stationed in Czechoslovakia, lovers Bertha Sommer and Officer Franz Kern long to escape from the war and its consequences, but they are trapped between the advancing Red Army and the fear of their own system, which punishes desertion with death.Meanwhile, an American contemporary, living in Germany, sets out on a mission to find the exact location of the last shot fired in the war, in a personal attempt to close this horrific chapter in humanity’s history.

Sailor in the Wardrobe

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Häftad, Engelska, 2006

145 kr

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Following on from the success of ‘The Speckled People’, Hugo Hamilton's new memoir recounts the summer he spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust.Young Hugo longs to be released from the confused identity he has inherited from his German mother and Irish father, but the backdrop of his mother’s shame at the hands of Allied soldiers in the aftermath of the Second World War, along with his German cousin’s mysterious disappearance somewhere on the Irish West Coast and the spiralling troubles in the north, seems determined to trap him in history. In an attempt to break free of his past, Hugo rebels against his father’s strict and crusading regime and turns to the exciting new world of rock and roll, still a taboo subject in the family home.His job at the local harbour, rather than offering a welcome respite from his speckled world, entangles him in a bitter feud between two fishermen – one Catholic, one Protestant. Hugo listens to the missing persons bulletins going out on the radio for his German cousin, and watches the unfolding harbour duel end in drowning before he can finally escape the ropes of history.

Speckled People

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Häftad, Engelska, 2006

226 kr

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A deeply moving memoir about a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family's homesickness for a country they can call their own.The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place: His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning of the war, encourages them to speak German. All Hugo wants to do is speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt down Hugo (or 'Eichmann' as they dub him) in the streets of Dublin, and English is what they use when they bring him to trial and execute him at a mock seaside court. Out of this fear and confusion Hugo tries to build a balanced view of the world, to turn the twisted logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before this little boy has uncovered the dark and long-buried secrets that lie at the bottom of his parents' wardrobe.In one of the finest books to have emerged from Ireland since Patrick McCabe's THE BUTCHER BOY and Seamus Deane's READING IN THE DARK, acclaimed novelist Hugo Hamilton has finally written his own story.

Every Single Minute

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Häftad, Engelska, 2015

145 kr

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‘Not only haunted by death, but also by beauty and the strangeness of being alive. A deeply memorable novel’ Colm Tóibín‘… I have friends and family, I am in this wonderful country, I have money, there is nothing much wrong with me except I am dying.’Úna has little over a week left to live and wants to see Berlin for the first and last time. Her friend Liam accompanies her. As the city streets open up to them, so too do their pasts. Úna recalls her life – her lovers, her famous father, her alcoholic mother and the death of her younger brother. For Liam the weekend becomes a lesson in true living from a friend he is about to lose.

Dublin Palms

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Häftad, Engelska, 2020

120 kr

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The palm trees give the street a holiday atmosphere. There must be something in the soil they like. They have straight leaves that get a bit ragged, with split ends. At night you hear them rattling in the wind. The narrator of Dublin Palms has returned to Dublin to set up home with his partner Helen and their two children. Their lives are filled with optimism, but also a sense of dislocation. Overshadowed by the Troubles in the North, their family enterprise begins to come apart. As the creditors line up to be paid, they must consider leaving everything behind. What will they gain when they stand to lose all?In this spectacular novel from the author of The Speckled People, a family tries to hold on in a falling world. It is a powerful story of fragmentation and belonging, of emigrants and people returning home.

Pages

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

194 kr

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‘A rich, strange book. Very truthful and moving’ Tessa Hadley 'A terrific, engrossing novel’ Roddy Doyle ‘A masterpiece’ Sebastian Barry The new novel about the transformative power of art, the weight of history and the strange connection we make with one another from the author of The Speckled People. Narrated in the voice of Joseph Roth's masterpiece Rebellion, Hugo Hamilton's stunning, formally inventive new novel tells the life story of that book, initially rescued from the Nazi book-burning in Berlin in May 1933. It recounts the life of its Austrian-Jewish author, a writer on the run, and his intriguing wife Friederike who fell victim to mental illness.And it tells a multitude of other stories: of Andreas Pum, a barrel-organ player down on his luck; of a young German American woman who finds a small map drawn by hand on its own blank page in the back, a thrilling mystery which will lead her to Berlin, the book's birthplace.The Pages carries profound echoes from the past into the present day and is an inspiring story of the survival of literature over a hundred years.

The Harbor Boys: A Memoir

AvHugo Hamilton

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

240 kr

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Conversation with the Sea

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Häftad, Engelska, 2025

206 kr

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'Truly a book for our time' PAUL LYNCHFROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SPECKLED PEOPLEFleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with a journal as his sole companion.His inherited memory of the Nazi Holocaust comes face to face with the present when he meets a refugee from a recent warzone. As Lukas communes with the elements in this wild coastal place, he is forced into a confrontation with the past that will carry him to the edge of existence.Conversation with the Sea speaks with heart-rending tenderness to the present moment, as it explores truth, illusion and the deadly silencing of war in a captivating tale of love in a time of displacement.'Told with Hamilton's signature purity of tone, an epic story about how love and history intersect.' ANNE ENRIGHT'I don't think I've ever read a book as wise, or as moving. I will treasure it forever.' DONAL RYAN'Hypnotic, passionate, urgent ... Hamilton cuts a clean line to the truth of our mindless moment.' PAUL LYNCH

Conversation with the Sea

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

132 kr

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Shortlisted for the 2026 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award'I feel changed by this novel' Donal Ryan'An epic story' Anne Enright'Truly a book for our time' Paul Lynch'Near-perfect beauty' Irish TimesFROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SPECKLED PEOPLE'Deeply moving, utterly readable, bursting with life' Frank McGuinness'Hamilton leaves you with images that linger' Sunday IndependentFleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with a journal as his sole companion.His inherited memory of the Nazi Holocaust comes face to face with the present when he meets a refugee from a recent warzone. As Lukas communes with the elements in this wild coastal place, he is forced into a confrontation with the past that will carry him to the edge of existence. Conversation with the Sea speaks with heart-rending tenderness to the present moment, as it explores truth, illusion and the deadly silencing of war in a captivating tale of love in a time of displacement.'Unsettling and strangely absorbing' Irish Independent'A profound meditation ... precise, masterly' Irish Examiner

Conversation with the Sea

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

241 kr

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'Truly a book for our time' PAUL LYNCHFROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE SPECKLED PEOPLEFleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with a journal as his sole companion.His inherited memory of the Nazi Holocaust comes face to face with the present when he meets a refugee from a recent warzone. As Lukas communes with the elements in this wild coastal place, he is forced into a confrontation with the past that will carry him to the edge of existence.Conversation with the Sea speaks with heart-rending tenderness to the present moment, as it explores truth, illusion and the deadly silencing of war in a captivating tale of love in a time of displacement.'Told with Hamilton's signature purity of tone, an epic story about how love and history intersect.' ANNE ENRIGHT'I don't think I've ever read a book as wise, or as moving. I will treasure it forever.' DONAL RYAN'Hypnotic, passionate, urgent ... Hamilton cuts a clean line to the truth of our mindless moment.' PAUL LYNCH

Speckled People

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Häftad, Engelska, 2011

208 kr

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Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant, and at times very funny family drama of homesickness, control and identity. As a young boy, Hugo Hamilton struggles with what it means to be speckled, "half and half... Irish on top and German below."An idealistic Irish father enforces his cultural crusade by forbidding his son to speak English while his German mother tries to rescue him with her warm-hearted humour and uplifting industry. The boy must free himself from his father and from bullies on the street who persecute him with taunts of Nazism. Above all he must free himself from history and from the terrible secrets of his mother and father before he can find a place where he belongs.Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between Irish history and German history and to turn the strange logic of what he is told into truth. It is a journey that ends in liberation but not before the long-buried secrets at the back of the parents' wardrobe have been laid bare.

Stranger at Home

AvHugo Hamilton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

273 kr

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Following in the footsteps of Nobel Laureate Heinrich Böll’s 1956 classic Irish Journal, Hugo Hamilton revisits Boll’s evocations of 18 places across the island to take stock of the changes that have occurred over the last seven decades in Ireland. Part travelogue, part memoir, part social commentary, and part comic masterpiece, this latest offering from one of Ireland’s best-selling authors (his memoir The Speckled People, his five novels) is sure to sell in very large numbers. Whereas Heinrich Böll visited St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a bank manager’s home in Mayo, the streets and shops of Limerick and the lighthouse on Clare Island, Hugo Hamilton visits the deserted village on Achill Island, Croke Park in Dublin, a barbershop in Limerick, Turlough Park House in County Mayo, a police station in Prague, the church on Clare Island and a classroom in Bucharest.

Der irische Freund

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Häftad, Tyska, 2012

159 kr

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Die redselige Insel

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Häftad, Tyska, 2007

125 kr

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Echos der Vergangenheit

AvHugo Hamilton

Inbunden, Tyska, 2023

267 kr

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De spräckliga : en irländsk barndom

AvHugo Hamilton

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Häftad, Svenska, 2011

178 kr

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»Vi har inte bara ett språk och en historia. Vi sover på tyska och vi drömmer på iriska. Vi skrattar på iriska och vi gråter på tyska. Vi är tysta på tyska och vi talar på engelska. Vi är spräckliga.» I sin hyllade memoarbok De spräckliga skildrar Hugo Hamilton sina barndomsår i 1950-talets Dublin. Kluven mellan den obeveklige faderns iriska nationalism och den kärleksfulla moderns tyska förflutna förmedlar författaren med barnets blick en hel familjs längtan efter ett land och ett språk som den kan kalla sitt eget. Den irländske författaren Hugo Hamilton föddes 1953 i Dublin, där han idag är bosatt och verksam som författare. Sitt stora genombrott fick han med De spräckliga. Förlaget gav 2018 ut den fristående fortsättningen Sjömannen i garderoben.

»De spräckliga är en fängslande och bitvis mycket rolig roman. Barndomsskildringar är nästan omöjliga att skriva utan att det blir antingen sött eller pompöst, men Hamilton hör till de få som lyckats. ... En närmast hisnande berättelse om hur en familj sitter fast i historiens skruvstäd.»Dagens Nyheter

»Hamiltons berättelse är unik.» Norrbottens-Kuriren

»Det är mörkt, tragiskt, varmt och roligt.» Kulturnytt, SR P1

»Fullständigt fri från sentimentalitet skriver Hamilton in sin familj i en historia fylld av språkets sprängkraft och individens envisa motstånd.» Helsingborgs Dagblad

»Hugo Hamiltons stilsäkra roman är i stället en vemodig berättelse om språklig hemlöshet, utanförskap och familjekärlek, helt fri från minsta antydan till bitterhet.»Svenska Dagbladet

Sjömannen i garderoben

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Häftad, Svenska, 2018

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Efter framgången med hyllade memoarboken De spräckliga följer den irländske författaren Hugo Hamilton upp med Sjömannen i garderoben. I denna starkt berörande berättelse skildrar författaren en sommar som hamnarbetare i Dublin på 1960-talet. Den unge Hugo försöker frigöra sig från den komplicerade identitet han ärvt av sin tyska mor och sin obeveklige, nationalistiske, iriske far. Men moderns kvardröjande skam efter kriget och oroligheterna i Nordirland håller honom fast i historiens grepp. Hugo Hamilton, född 1953 i Dublin, fick sitt stora litterära genombrott med De spräckliga, som förlaget gav ut 2011. Sjömannen i garderoben är hans andra bok på svenska.

»En lika milt humoristisk som smärtfylld roman om kampen för ett liv i egen rätt, bortom historiens förbannelser och politikens krav på uppoffring och representativitet.»Borås Tidning

»Det är en mycket medryckande och känslofull uppväxtberättelse. Språket är mustigt och berörande.» BTJ-häftet

»Vid sidan av drömmarna och mardrömmarna växer berättelsen till ännu en gripande skildring om barndom, uppväxt, tonår och de frigörelseförsök som hela tiden gör att han hamnar i konflikt med sin ömsom dogmatiske, ömsom förlåtande och ödmjuke far. Att hans tyskfödda mor hjälper honom, står på hans sida, blir avgörande. Nu är boken också en förnämlig berättelse om hennes liv i det sönderslagna Tyskland, vad det leder till efter kriget och hennes ambitioner att verkligen bli ett med Irland. Så läst är det både det spräckliga och det migrerande i människors liv som fängslar. Att jag är mycket förtjust i den här boken behöver jag väl knappast säga.»Bloggen Nydahls kustvandringar

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