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Return to Killybegs

Author: Sorj Chalandon

Translated from French by Ursula Meaney Scott

2015 Longlist

Tyrone Meehan, damned as an informer, ekes out his days in Donegal, awaiting his killers.
‘Now that everything is out in the open, they will all speak in my place – the IRA, the British, my family, my close friends, journalists I’ve never even met. Some of them will go so far as to explain how and why I ended up a traitor… Do not trust my enemies, and even less my friends. Ignore those who will say they knew me. Nobody has ever walked in my shoes, nobody. The only reason I’m talking today is because I am the only one who can tell the truth. After I’m gone, I hope for silence.’

Return to Killybegs is the story of a traitor to Belfast’s Catholic community, emerging from the white heat of a prolonged war during the 1970s and 1980s in Northern Ireland. This powerful work, lauded by critics, shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt and awarded the Grand Prix de Roman de l’Académie Française, deals with a subject that touches a nerve for most Irish people: the all-too-human circumstances of betrayal and survival. It is an extraordinary and affecting read.

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About the Author

Sorj Chalandon, journalist and novelist, spent formative years on assignment to Northern Ireland as a reporter for Libération during the Troubles. My Traitor (Lilliput, 2011), a prequel to this book, was first published to acclaim in France in 2007, winning the Prix Joseph Kessel and the Prix Jean Freustié.

About the Translator

Ursula Meany Scott is a literary translator from French and Spanish. She holds an M. Phil in literary translation from Trinity College, Dublin, and her translations have appeared in two volumes of the Best European Fiction series to date.

Librarian’s Comments

Return to Killybegs won the Grand Prix Du Roman De L’Academie Francaise and was shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize. It is a fictional story based on a real person, inspired by the 2006 murder of Dennis Donaldson, a senior Sinn Féin member who was revealed as a Britich secret agent.

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Sorj Chalandon

Country

FR

Nominating Library

Croatia, Gradska Knjiznica Rijeka

Publisher

Ireland, Lilliput Press

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