Dúnmharú
sa Daingean le Éilís Ni Dhuibhne
Foilsithe ag Cois Life Teo. Baile Atha Cliath 2000
Scríobhann Éilís Ní Dhuibhne as Béarla
agus as Gaeilge. Tá Drámaí, Úrscéalta
agus Gearrscéalta scríobhta aici. ‘Thriller’
atá san leabhair seo. Seo scéal Saoirse, cailín
a oibríonn sa gailearaí ‘Pink and Black’
atá suite i mBarra an Teampaill. Tá leannán
neamháirdiúil aici, Marcus, agus tá conaí
aici in árasán beag taobh leis an DART ar an taobh
theas den cathair. Go hobann caileann sí an fear, an post
agus an árasán agus faigheann sí faoiseamh
faoin dtuaith i sráidbhaile beag i gCo. Chiarraí.
Cuir síos ar na heachtraí drochthuarach a thiteann
amach san sráid bhaile sin agus an páirt a glacann
Saoirse iontu atá sa leabhair seo.
Tá
an leabhair scríobhtha i stíl simplí atá
éasca le tuiscint. Ta sé greannmhar go leor san slí
ina gcuireann sí síos ar na difríochta idir
nósanna na cathrac agus nósanna faoin dtuath. Deineann
sí magaidh in a cuir síos faoidh na cladhairí
agus na Gardaí agus na geaitsí a bhíonn ar
súil acu ag iarraidh na faidhbeanna éagsula a réiteach.
Eilís
Ní Dhuibhne is an author who writes in both Irish and English.
She is a playwright, novelist and short-story writer. This book
is a thriller. Its heroine, Saoirse, works in a trendy art gallery,
‘Pink and Black’, in Temple Bar in Dublin. She has an
unreliable boyfriend, Marcus, and lives in a tiny flat in the South
side of the city close to the DART. When she loses the boyfriend,
the job and the flat all together she retreats from the rat race
to West Kerry to lick her wounds. This is the saga of the sinister
events she gets involved in on the Dingle Peninsula. It is amusing
in its comparisons and contrasts of city and country life. She lampoons
the villains and Gardai in their efforts to find a solution to the
mysterious happenings in the area.
The
book is written in easy simple Irish and should not present difficulties
to a reader with basic skills in Irish.
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