- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Trade (May 31 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 000225977X
- ISBN-13: 978-0002259774
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 621 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #459,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Reviews for The Whitest Flower: 'Irish history is like a gold seam for historical novelists. Occasionally a nugget is produced and Graham's is one of those.' Ireland on Sunday. 'The guy can write. Lyrical music. Musical prose.' Sunday Independent. 'A remarkable and emotional odyssey which uses the great Irish Famine and the subsequent diaspora as the subject matter for a novel of immense potency.' Irish Post. 'This huge sweep of a novel will whisk you from Ireland to Australia and Canada.' Woman's Realm. 'This is truly an extraordinary book, an epic in the true sense. Ellen Rua, the central character, is clearly discernible, through her struggles, her journeys, her ultimate overcoming of her sufferings, as the personification of Ireland. She is the keeper of its culture, its music and language, its spirituality. She is its voice, even when the impossible choices which faced people at the time force her to be complicit in the destruction of her own language ... Ellen is the quest for Ireland's spiritual soul tossed between the old and the new religions. She is also the resurrection of the new Ireland rising out of starvation and disease, the embodiment of the hope that kept our people going.' An Taoiseach, Mr Bertie Ahern, T.D.. 'The Whitest Flower is a disturbing, challenging, and rewarding read, which puts our history in context and through Ellen Rua O'Malley reminds us of the beauty of a pilgram life well lived.' Fr. Brian Darcy, Sunday World
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Widowed by Ireland's Great Famine, Ellen Rua O'Malley flees her native land for Boston and the New World: with her are her two surviving children, Patrick and Mary, and the 'silent girl' whom Ellen has found wandering among the hordes of the dispossessed. In Boston awaits the man who loves her, Lavelle, and the hope and stability which she craves: but is shaking off the Old World, its customs, its language, the answer she believes it to be? Or is she destined to be caught between past and present, between two loves? When a man from her past reappers it seems that her own conflict can only lead to a fall from grace.
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Sad and moving, Jun 24 2010
By W. van Hooft - Published on Amazon.com
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I really enjoyed this book because of its informative, historical storyline.Anyone who only wants a book with a happy ending better not reads this book, it would be too "realistic" for your taste.
However: it has given me a fair idea of what the Irish went through not so long ago; only 150/160 years. It has made me understand better when certain feelings get expressed, sometimes.
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