The children of the Blackwood Ghetto

ISBN-13: 9783754144022 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str.

Elias J. Connor

Opis

Just before Christmas, in the late 1980s in Ireland. Violence, religious terror, hostility and marginalization determine everyday life in a district near Belfast."Sandy is what keeps me alive," Laurina said one day to her mother. It is the day on which the eleven year old girl begins to fight against an unimaginably dreary life.At the new school everyone is against Laurina and her sister Sandy because they are not honest Catholics, as the other children say. While the mother tries to get through every day with some kind of job to feed her children, they are despised for their apparent poverty. When they are then separated from their mother, a world collapses for them. Only one classmate brings Laurina back the trust and hope little by little - but this boy of all people holds a big, serious secret ...THE CHILDREN OF THE BLACKWOOD GHETTO - A social drama from author Elias J. Connor, set in Ireland in the late 1980s, and the Story of a girl tells who would go through hell for her little sister.

Just before Christmas, in the late 1980s in Ireland. Violence, religious terror, hostility and marginalization determine everyday life in a district near Belfast.

O autorze

Connor, Elias J. Elias J. Connor ist Autor in den Genres Fantasy, Drama, Sozialdrama und Thriller, stellenweise auch in weiteren Genres wie Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und Sachbuch.Schon im frühen Kindesalter beginnt Elias zu schreiben; zunächst Kurzgeschichten, später ganze abgeschlossene Geschichten. Aber dies tut er nur im Verborgenen.2013 bringt ihn seine enge Vertraute, deren Patenschaft er lange zuvor als Patenonkel übernommen hat, auf die Idee, seine Werke der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen. 2014 erscheint daraufhin sein erster Roman.