Joseph O’Connor The Ghosts of Rome recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de roman over de Tweede Wereldoorlog van de Ierse schrijver. Op 30 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Europa Editions de nieuwe oorlogsroman van Joseph O’Connor en Rome Escape Line 2. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Joseph O’Connor The Ghosts of Rome recensie, review en informatie
- “O’Connor has often been likened to the great Irish modernists for the lyricism of his voice-driven novels. But The Ghosts of Rome—which despite being the second in the trilogy can be read as a stand-alone novel—also situates him within a broader European tradition of memory and moral reckoning, one that returns again and again to World War II.” (The New York Times)
- “Richly atmospheric and pulsing with excitement, this novel breaks the second-in-a-trilogy ‘curse.’ O’Connor’s final act can’t come soon enough.” (The Star Tribune)
- “The Ghosts of Rome is a deeply affecting read with an ending that’s sad yet life affirming… Mesmerising, tragic, horrifying, utterly unputdownable… An outstanding read for fans of WWII fiction and of writers like Anthony Doerr.” (Booklist)
- “It was hard to turn pages fast enough to keep up with the rapid-fire pace of The Ghosts of Rome. O’Connor lures readers into a little known, but important, facet of World War II history and keeps them hooked until the very last page.” (Marie Benedict, author of The Personal Librarian)
- “Pulse-pounding… O’Connor captivates with his vigorous portrayal of wartime Rome.” (Publshers Weekly)
The Ghosts of Rome
- Auteur: Joseph O’Connor (Ierland)
- Soort boek: oorlogsroman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Europa Editions
- Verschijnt: 30 januari 2025
- Omvang: 400 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 28,00 / $ 14,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de nieuwe oorlogsroman over Rome van Joseph O’Connor
In the final months of World War II, a clandestine group known as The Choir successfully smuggles thousands of escapees out of Nazi-occupied Rome via a secret route known as the Escape Line. When an unidentified airman falls wounded from the sky, The Choir is plunged into danger and the survival of the Escape Line itself is threatened.
The Escape Line’s collapse would leave thousands stranded. Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty, its architect and the acknowledged leader of The Choir, broods inside the Vatican, paralyzed by the perils of keeping his Roman underground railroad functioning. Meanwhile, SS Commander Paul Hauptmann has been tasked with destroying the entire operation, and the price of failure is high—his wife and children are under Gestapo lock-and-key in Berlin. Into this deliriously thrilling melee steps Contessa Giovanna Landini, a reckless, audacious, and magnetic member of the Italian Resistance who has the nerve to challenge Hauptmann’s authority.
Beautifully written and expertly crafted, The Ghosts of Rome is a historical suspense novel bursting with action, atmosphere, and unforgettable characters by one of contemporary fiction’s most acclaimed and beloved writers.
Joseph O’Connor was born on 20 september 1963 in Dublin, Ireland. His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, a New York Times, Economist Notable Book of the Year, and a Sunday Times Number 1 bestseller. It won France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is the author of nine novels and is the Inaugural Frank McCourt Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. Shadowplay was named Novel of the Year at the 2019 Irish Book Awards and was a finalist for the prestigious Costa Book Award.
