Redemption

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when master novelist Leon Uris wrote Trinity, he gave the world a modern classic. Now Uris continues his epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption.
Set against the dramatic backdrop of increased unrest in Ireland and a world about to be pitched headlong into the nightmare of the First World War, Redemption weaves together unforgettable new characters with those that readers came to know so well in Trinity. Liam Larkin, forced to emigrate from Ireland to New Zealand in 1895, has become a prosperous sheep baron; his oldest son, Rory, a seething "wild colonial boy," lives restlessly with a dark Larkin family secret and is haunted by the legend of his uncle, Conor Larkin, who was killed in an Irish Republican raid; and Atty Fitzpatrick, an aristocrat and Conor's last love turned member of the illegal Brotherhood. Here is a young Winston Churchill, destined to make a profound impact on Ireland, accompanying his father. Lord Randolph Churchill, to Ireland in the... Tovább

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when master novelist Leon Uris wrote Trinity, he gave the world a modern classic. Now Uris continues his epic story of the Irish struggle for freedom in Redemption.
Set against the dramatic backdrop of increased unrest in Ireland and a world about to be pitched headlong into the nightmare of the First World War, Redemption weaves together unforgettable new characters with those that readers came to know so well in Trinity. Liam Larkin, forced to emigrate from Ireland to New Zealand in 1895, has become a prosperous sheep baron; his oldest son, Rory, a seething "wild colonial boy," lives restlessly with a dark Larkin family secret and is haunted by the legend of his uncle, Conor Larkin, who was killed in an Irish Republican raid; and Atty Fitzpatrick, an aristocrat and Conor's last love turned member of the illegal Brotherhood. Here is a young Winston Churchill, destined to make a profound impact on Ireland, accompanying his father. Lord Randolph Churchill, to Ireland in the Protestant cause, rising to First Lord of the Admiralty and becoming chief architect of the Gallipoli catastrophe. Wealthy, beautiful Anglo industrialist Countess Caroline Weed Hubble, who has never overcome her unrequited love for Conor Larkin, weaves her way like a single thread through the lives of the Larkin family, ultimately using her influence with Churchill in a dangerous gambit.
Redemption takes us from the expansive frontier of New Zealand to the shipyards of Belfast; it follows Rory Larkin who, determined to fight his way to Ireland, enlists
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in the ANZAC Corps, embarking on an odyssey that takes him from Australia to a scorching desert training base in Egypt and the fleshpots of Cairo to the disastrous debacle at Gallipoli; it brings us to a dangerous Ireland after the violent Easter Uprising of 1916, when a fledgling Irish Republican Army declared independence and named a provisional government only to be put down within a week by the English, fanning the flames of defiance and bloodshed that would further darken the political landscape of Ireland well into the century.
Redemption is played out in the magnificence of New Zealand's green mountains, on the bloody beaches and cliffs of Gallipoli, in a riotous Cairo, and on the streets of rebel Dublin, where it spirals to a stunning climax as Rory Larkin reaches his motherland with a mission of vengeance.
Redemption is more than a monumental tale of the Irish struggle for independence; it is the history of the lives and internecine warfare of three great families—the Larkins, the Weed-Hubble clan, and the Fitzpatricks— and the men and women they loved.
Redemption is a majestic work that will stand alone as a classic for all time.
An internationally acclaimed novelist for over forty years, Leon Uris is the author of Trinity, Exodus, Mitla Pass, Mila 18, QB VII, Battle Cry, Topaz, and Arma- > geddon, among others. He lives in New York. Vissza