SAY NOTHING PB True Story Murder & Memory Northern

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYNow an FX TV series streaming on DISNEY+Unquestionably one of the greatest literary achievements of the 21st century Nick HornbyFrom the author of Empire of Pain a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this terrible crime and a whole society in Northern Ireland for decades. In this powerful, scrupulously reported book, Patrick Radden Keefe offers not just a forensic account of a brutal crime but a vivid portrait of the world in which it happened. The tragedy of an entire country is captured in the spellbinding narrative of a handful of characters, presented in lyrical and unforgettable detail. A poem by Seamus Heaney inspires the title Whatever You Say, Say Nothing. By defying the culture of silence, Keefe illuminates how a closeknit society fractured how people chose sides in a conflict and turned to violence and how, when the shooting stopped, some excombatants came to look back in horror at the atrocities they had committed, while others continue to advocate violence even today. Say Nothing deftly weaves the stories of Jean McConville and her family with those of Dolours Price, the first woman to join the IRA as a frontline... | Patrick Radden Keefe SAY NOTHING PB : A True Story Of Murder & Memory In Northern