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The Dirty Dust: Cré Na Cille (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
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By: Alan Titley, Máirtín O Cadhain
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: March 2015
Pages: 328
Categories: Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Hardback
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ISBN-13: 9780300198492
ISBN: 0300198493
ASIN: 0300198493

Alan Titley's vigorous new translation, full of the brio and guts of O Cadhain's original, at last brings the pleasures of this great satiric novel to the far wider audience it deserves. In The Dirty Dust all characters lie dead in their graves. This, however, does not impair their banter or their appetite for news of aboveground happenings from the recently arrived. Told entirely in dialogue, O Cadhain's daring novel listens in on the gossip, rumors, backbiting, complaining, and obsessing of the local community. In the afterlife, it seems, the same old life goes on beneath the sod. Only nothing can be done about it-apart from talk. In this merciless yet comical portrayal of a closely bound community, O

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