Cal

When it was first published, Bernard MacLaverty’s masterpiece was hailed by Michael Gorra in the New York Times Book Review as "a marvel of technical perfection…a most moving novel whose emotional impact is grounded in a complete avoidance of sentimentality…[It] will become the Passage to India of the Troubles.” For Cal, a Northern Irish teenager who, against his will, is involved in the terrible war between Catholics and Protestants, some of the choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in the slaughterhouse that nauseates him or join the dole line; he can brood on his past or plan a future with the beautiful, widowed Marcella for whose grief he shares more than a little responsibility.

Cand a fost publicat pentru prima data, capodopera lui Bernard MacLaverty a fost salutata de Michael Gorra in New York Times Book Review ca „o minune a perfectiunii tehnice ... un roman cel mai emotionant al carui impact emotional se bazeaza pe evitarea completa a sentimentalismului ... [Acesta] va deveni Trecerea in India a necazurilor. ” Pentru Cal, un adolescent nord-irlandez care, impotriva vointei sale, este implicat in teribilul razboi dintre catolici si protestanti, unele dintre alegeri sunt devastatoare de simple: poate lucra in abatorul care il face greata sau se poate alatura liniei dole; despre trecutul sau sau planificati un viitor cu frumoasa si vaduva Marcella pentru a carei durere impartaseste mai mult decat putina responsabilitate.