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Title	:	In the Country of the Young
Author	:	Lisa Carey
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	March 5th 2002 by Harper Perennial (first published October 1st 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Cultural. Ireland. Paranormal. Ghosts. Historical. Historical Fiction

In the Country of the Young Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

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On a stormy November night in 1848, a ship carrying more than a hundred Irish emigrants ran aground twenty miles off the coast of Maine. Many were saved, but some were not -- including a young girl who died crying out the name of her brother.

In the present day, the artist Oisin MacDara lives in self-imposed exile on Tiranogue -- the small island where the shipwrecked Irish settled. The past is Oisin's curse, as memories of the twin sister who died tragically when he was a boy haunt him still.

Then on a quiet All Hallows' Eve, a restless spirit is beckoned into his home by a candle flickering in the window: the ghost of the girl whose brief life ended on Tiranogue's shore more than a century earlier. In Oisin's house she seeks comfort and warmth, and a chance at the life that was denied her so long ago.

For a lonely man chained by painful memories, nothing will ever be the same again.

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Original Title:	In the Country of the Young
ISBN:	0060937742 (ISBN13: 9780060937744)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.91 From 763 Users | 99 Reviews

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Beautiful and magical and mysterious. That special lilt of Irish mythology's charm hammered into the weariness of Mainers, a perfect representation of second/ third generation storytelling art- nostalgia for a past one has hardly ever actually known. Such a good story, in fact, that I had to give it 4 stars despite my discomfort with the almost-incest and sorta-pedophilia (is it pedophilia when one is a ghost who was seven 150 years ago?)

There are ghosts in this book, set among the Irish in Ireland and America, but if you want a generic ghost story, stay away, On the other hand if you are looking for a gorgeous, satisfying, layered book where the the ghostliness of humans and the humanity of ghostliness illuminates the nature of us in a fresh, affecting and edgy way, then this is for you. It's a skilled and complex work of genuine literature, that is also hard to put down. A lonely artist in recent times is haunted by his lost

I absolutely loved this strange and beautiful story - the product of a sort of marriage between a ghost story and a romance. It was so moving - just absolutely beautiful. Carey has a lot of talent - I love her other books, too, but this one is my favorite! It is such a different sort of book that its hard to describe. But I read it in one sitting, just loving every page. I absolutely adored it! What a terrific story, with wonderful characters and a highly original premise. I look forward to

This was an exceptional book. A multi-layered story with such haunting characters.

This book is so simple and beautiful that it's hard to understand how it gets under your skin the way it does. It touches a cord in me, and probably does for people, like me, who live inside their own heads a lot. It's haunting, sweet, sad and completely unforgettable.

4.5 stars

While it was well-written, I found it to be almost pointless and even downright creepy but not in a good way. It was also very depressing in many parts.