The Secret Scripture

Resumen del libro

I once lived among humankind, and found them in their generality to be cruel and cold, and yet could mention the names of three or four that were like angels. I suppose we measure the importance of our days by those few angels we spy among us . . .'
Roseanne McNulty, perhaps nearing her 100th birthday - no one is quite sure - faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital where she's spent the best part of her adult life prepares for closure. Over the weeks leading up to this upheaval, she talks often with her psychiatrist Dr Grene. This relationship, guarded but trusting after so many years, intensifies and complicates as Dr Grene mourns the death of his wife.

Told through their respective journals, the story that emerges - of Roseanne's family in 1930s Sligo - is at once shocking and deeply beautiful. Refracted through the haze of memory and retelling, Roseanne's story becomes an alternative, secret, history of Ireland. Exquisitely written, it is the story of a life blighted by terrible mistreatment and ignorance, and yet marked still by love and passion and hope.

Biografía del autor

Sebastian Barry nació en Dublín en 1955. Es autor de ocho novelas, así como de numerosas obras de teatro. Fue el primer novelista en ganar dos veces el premio Costa al Libro del Año, por "Días sin final" y "La escritura secreta". Ha sido finalista en dos ocasiones del Premio Booker, por "Más y más lejos" y "La escritura secreta", y semifinalista por "Días sin final" y "En el lado de Canaán". Entre 2018 y 2021 fue reconocido con la prestigiosa distinción Laurate for Irish Fiction. Actualmente vive en el condado de Wicklow, Irlanda.<br> <br> También disponible de Sebastian Barry en AdN: "Días sin final" y "Mil lunas".