A complex portrayal of complicity and violence, renowned author Audrey Magee's The Colony explores the devastating and long-lasting effects of colonialism in a novel about two outsiders seeking connection to a land whose people yearn for true freedom.
It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by curragh, though boats with engines are available and he doesn't much like the sea. But he wants the authentic experience, to be changed by this place, to let its quiet and light fill him, give him room to create.
He doesn't know that close behind a Frenchman follows. Masson has visited for many years, studying their language. He is fiercely protective of their isolation; it is essential to exploring his theories of language preservation and identity.
But the people who live on this rock--three miles wide and half-a-mile long--have their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken, and what ought to be given in return. Over the summer each of them--from great-grandmother Bean U?Fhloinn, to widowed Mair嶧d, her husband lost at sea, to fifteen-year-old James, determined to avoid the life of a fisherman--will wrestle with their own values and desires. Meanwhile, all over Ireland, violence is erupting. And there is blame enough to go around.
An expertly woven portrait of character and place, a stirring investigation into yearning to find one's own way, and an unflinchingly political critique of the long, seething cost of imperialism, The Colony is a novel that transports, that celebrates beauty and connection, and that reckons with the inevitable ruptures of independence.
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