Songdogs Av Colum Mccann

<p><u><b>The debut novel from National Book Award winner and Booker nominee Colum McCann</b></u><br><br><b>''Colum McCann conjures a hugely inventive debut'' </b><i>Observer</i><br><br><b>‘McCann writes equally well about Ireland, America and Mexico, and he links past and present in a finely woven narrative: <i>Songdogs </i>is a vivid, beautifully measured book’ </b><i>Sunday Times</i><br><b>__________________</b><br>Colum McCann''s first novel goes back to the years before the Spanish Civil War, following the adventures of a peripatetic Irish photographer from the war-strewn shores of Europe to the exotic plains of Mexico.<br><br>The story is told in the words of the photographer''s only son, a wanderer himself, who uses his father''s unreliable memories and the fading remnants of his art to piece together his family history and explain the mystery surrounding his mother - a Mexican beauty brought back by his father to Ireland.</p>