{"product_id":"the-ghosts-of-rome-joseph-oconnor","title":"The Ghosts Of Rome (Joseph O'Connor)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'As thrilling, beautiful and sensational a novel as you'll read this year or any year' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFebruary 1944. Six months since Nazi forces occupied Rome.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside the war-torn city, the Contessa Giovanna Landini works for the band of Escape Line activists known as 'the Choir'. Her mission is to smuggle Allied soldiers to safety, all under the nose of Gestapo boss Paul Hauptmann.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring a ferocious morning air raid a mysterious parachutist lands in Rome and disappears into the backstreets. Is he an ally or an imposter? His fate will come to put the whole Escape Line at risk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeanwhile, Hauptmann's attention has landed on the Contessa. As his fascination grows, she is pulled into a dangerous game with him - one where the consequences could be lethal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A superb testament to humankind's bravery and resilience...moving and immersive' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGuardian, Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003cb\u003eTremendous and terrifying' Fintan O'Toole, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times Books of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A stellar piece of storytelling' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Not just a wartime thriller, but a meditation on how we remember, how we resist and how, even in the darkest times, humanity endures' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph O'Connor's fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling \u003ci\u003eStar of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGhost Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eShadowplay\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Father's House\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award, twice for the Whitbread\/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason\/An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeleine Zepter for European Novel of the Year.  He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ewww.josephoconnorauthor.com\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Trade paperback (UK), Englisch, 384 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63448425300317,"sku":"K097809353","price":15.9,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/229191-9780935300001A.jpg?v=1771209782","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-ghosts-of-rome-joseph-oconnor","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}