β Scribed by Hugo Hamilton
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy trapped in a language war. Set in 1950s Ireland, this is a gripping, poignant, and at times very funny family drama of homesickness,controland identity.
As a young boy, Hugo Hamilton struggles with what it means to be speckled, "half and half... Irish on top and German below."
An idealistic Irish father enforces his cultural crusade by forbidding his son to speak English while his German mother tries to rescue him with her warm-hearted humour and uplifting industry. The boy must free himself from his father and from bullies on the street who persecute him with taunts ofNazism. Above all he must free himself from history and from the terrible secrets of his mother and father before he can find a place where he belongs.
Surrounded by fear, guilt, and frequently comic cultural entanglements, Hugo tries to understand the differences between Irish...
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