A powerful novel from one of Irelands best writers on the turbulent birth of anation and the lovers it divides. A terrific novel. Moving and hugelyentertaining.... » 

A powerful novel from one of Irelands best writers on the turbulent birth of anation and the lovers it divides. A terrific novel. Moving and hugelyentertaining. Roddy Doyle Ireland 1945. Young and beautiful Iz begins alife on the southeast coast with her new husband. As she settles in to try andmake her life by the sea circumstances that have brought Iz to Monument areshrouded in mystery. The war in Europe is over and change is about to brushaway the old order. Soaring across the decades that follow Irelands newly wonindependence sweeping across the fierce class issues and battles over landownership that once defined Irish society The Sea and the Silence is an epiclove story set inside the fading grandeur of the AngloIrish class. «