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A Ghost in the Throat

Auteur(s): Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Narrateur(s): Siobhán McSweeney
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When we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries.

On discovering her murdered husband's body, an 18th-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlin Dubh Ni Chonaill's poem travels through the centuries, finding its way to a new mother who has narrowly avoided her own fatal tragedy. When she realizes that the literature dedicated to the poem reduces Eibhlin Dubh's life to flimsy sketches, she wants more: the details of the poet's girlhood and old age; her unique rages, joys, sorrows, and desires; the shape of her days and site of her final place of rest. What follows is an adventure in which Doireann Ni Ghriofa sets out to discover Eibhlin Dubh's erased life - and in doing so, discovers her own.

Moving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, A Ghost in the Throat is a shape-shifting book: a record of literary obsession; a narrative about the erasure of a people, of a language, of women; a meditation on motherhood and on translation; and an unforgettable story about finding your voice by freeing another's.

©2020 Doireann Ní Ghríofa (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books Femmes
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An old poem is brought to life through the untiring research of the author, but she is also telling us the story of her own life while she was obsessed with the poet's history and the events surrounding the writing of the poem. The subject of the book is a poem and the poet, but ferreting out the story is a journey unto itself. At times, the author wanders a little too deeply into her own story, but for the most part her present day life is expertly woven into the tale of tragedy and beauty which set the context for the poem. This is well-worth listening to, narrated in a lovely voice.

Study a poem in memoir-style

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A Ghost in the Throat is poetry disguised as prose. Part memoir, part biography, part mystery, this treatise on motherhood, womanhood, love, desire, the the erasure of women is stunning and unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Impeccably narrated.

Exquisite

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