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  Hand in the Fire (Fourth Estate) (Paperback) By (author) Hugo Hamilton

  

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  Short Description for Hand in the FireYou have a funny way of doing things here.
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  • Publisher: FOURTH ESTATE LTD
  • Published: 01 April 2011
  • Format: Paperback 300 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780007324835 ISBN 10: 0007324839
  • Sales rank: 351,397

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• You have a funny way of doing things here. The voice is that of Vid Cosic, a Serbian immigrant whose immediate friendship with a young Dublin lawyer, Kevin Concannon, is overshadowed by a violent incident in which a man is left for dead in the street one night. The legal fallout forces them into an ever closer, uncertain partnership, drawing Vid right into the Concannon family, working for them as a carpenter on a major renovation project and becoming more and more involved in their troubled family story. While he claims to have lost his own memory in a serious accident back home in Serbia, he cannot help investigating the emerging details of a young woman from Connemara who was denounced by the church and whose pregnant body was washed up on the Aran Islands many years ago. Was it murder or suicide? And what dark impact does this event in the past still have on the Concannon family now? As the deadly echo of hatred and violence begins to circle closer around them, Vid finds this spectacular Irish friendship coming under increasing threat with fatal consequences. Drawing on his own speckled, Irish-German background, Hugo Hamilton has given us a highly compelling and original view of contemporary Ireland, the nature of welcome and the uneasy trespassing into a new country.