Six Degrees of Separation ~ Land

Marrie O'Farrell 

"Land"

#6Degrees of Separation:

from Land (Goodreads) to A Promised Land

#6Degrees is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. I love the idea. Thank you, Kate. See more about this challenge, its history, further books and how I found this here. 

I read "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell a while ago but hadn't heard of this one. It only just appeared in paperback and I have made myself promise not to buy too many expensive books in the near future, I have too many on my TBR pile already. Which means, as so often, I have not read this book.

So, here is the description:

"'You will never understand how the land remembers, how deep the roots grow'

A spellbinding story of separation, longing, recovery and survival as a family makes a new home in the aftermath of tragedy.

On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.

The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?

Land is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away."

I decided to go with the title but not move to another word but look for books that I read that have the word Land in its title.

Agus, Milena "From the Land of the Moon" (IT: Mal di Pietre) - 2006

Grossman, David "To the End of the Land" (Hebr.: אשה בורחת מבשורה/Isha Nimletet Mi'Bshora) - 2008 

Pears, Tim "In a Land of Plenty" - 1977

Carter, Jimmy "We Can Have Peace In The Holy Land. A Plan That Will Work" - 2008

Hochschild, Arlie Russell "Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right" - 2016

Obama, Barack "A Promised Land" - 2020

The connection between the first and the last book? Easy again, the titles all contain the word LAND.

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