Advantages: About Ireland, very moving, excellent characters, well written story Disadvantages: some people may find it a bit long
...cover of this fantastic book: Trinity by Leon Uris. This book, more or less, is about Ireland from the time of the famine in the 1840s to the Easter Rising of 1916. However, that is definitely NOT a simple topic. It's very complex. Trinity does a very good job of including several groups and events from Irish history, while telling a fictional story. Trinity follows the lives of three main groups of characters. The first is the Larkin family. They ... ...some of the themes for Trinity (obviously), these themes are generally background and the main theme/issue is the social group or class of the characters. The characters themselves are dynamic, interesting and well written. This is the strongest point of Trinity for me. The fact that, by the end, I felt that I knew the characters and that I'd grown with them throughout the story. That is one of the biggest things I look for any time I read and recommend ...
Rahielli 20.04.2005
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