{"product_id":"a-ghost-in-the-throat","title":"A Ghost in the Throat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Post\u003c\/em\u003e Irish Book Awards Nonfiction Book of the Year - A \u003cem\u003eGuardian \u003c\/em\u003eBest Book of 2020 - Shortlisted for the 2021 Rathbones Folio Prize - Longlisted for the 2021 Republic of Consciousness Prize - Winner of the James Tait Black Biography Prize \u003c\/strong\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eA\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e New \u0026amp; Noteworthy Title - Longlisted for the 2021 Gordon Burn Prize - A Buzzfeed Recommended Summer Read - A \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2021 - A \u003cem\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2022 - An \u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2021 - A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2021 - A \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year - A \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e Top Read of 2021 - An \u003cem\u003eEntropy Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e Best of the Year - A \u003cem\u003eLitHub\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2021 - A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Critics' Top Book of 2021 - A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhen we first met, I was a child, and she had been dead for centuries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn discovering her murdered husband's body, an eighteenth-century Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament. Eibhlín Dubh Ní 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 Eibhlín 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 Ní Ghríofa sets out to discover Eibhlín Dubh's erased life--and in doing so, discovers her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving fluidly between past and present, quest and elegy, poetry and those who make it, \u003cem\u003eA Ghost in the Throat\u003c\/em\u003e is a shapeshifting 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51947885789415,"sku":"9781771964111","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_a55d8d47-259c-4176-a546-3e5e5c5180d3.jpg?v=1775502944","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/a-ghost-in-the-throat","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}