Call The Swallow
Product Description
Ariela Steinbaum, a 19-year-old girl, leaves home to study music. But the year is 1938, the city is Warsaw and Ariela is Jewish. Fifty years later her brother sets out to find out what happened to her.
From the Publisher
Short listed for the 2002 Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Prize and nominated for the 2002 Hughes & Hughes / Sunday Independent Novel of the Year.
Praise for Call The Swallow:
‘Call The Swallow is at once similar to and very different from Schindler’s Ark; it is certainly as important and is ultimately superior as fiction. Neither polemical nor sentimental, O’Connell’s novel is elevated not only by the heartbreaking subject matter, but by integrity, compassion and honesty.’ Eileen Battersby, The Irish Times
‘A book with a blazing heart, a j’accuse that echoes long after the reading’s done.’ RTE Guide
‘An engrossing read’ Sunday Tribune
‘This is a superbly written book’ The Kerryman
‘A superb piece of writing which is tender, brutal and even erotic’ Sunday Independent
‘An important, dignified and immensely moving novel’ The Irish Times
About the Author
Fergus is also the author of twelve business books. The first of these, How to Run Successful Projects – the Silver Bullet, has become both a bestseller and a classic and has been constantly in print for over twenty years. His book on common sense entitled Simply Brilliant – also a bestseller – was runner-up in the W H Smith Book Awards 2002. His books have been translated into twenty languages.
