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Remembrance Sunday by McKeon Darragh

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Author Darragh McKeon Published by Sandycove ISBN 9781844886234 EAN 9781844886234 Bic Code FV|FA Cover Paperback

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Simon Hanlon, an Irish architect in New York, has a chance encounter with a childhood friend. Something she says provokes a rush of dark recollection, and a seizure. Every day, then, there is another seizure. As Simon waits for an operation that could leave him unable to form memories or emotions, he engages with a long-suppressed trauma from his past: the Remembrance Sunday parade in Enniskillen in 1987, which he attended with his father, and which was targeted by a deadly terrorist bomb. Recalling this event, and a mysterious encounter that preceded it, he tries to understand what links his fifteen-year-old and forty-eight-year-old selves.Remembrance Sunday explores the legacies of violence and grief, and the question of how we can understand our own lives and the lives of others. What does trauma do to us, and what makes a person want to harm another?