The Colony - Audrey Magee
Category: Novel
Narrator: Stephen Hogan
Tags: Novel, Contemporary, Adults, Literature
It is the summer of 1979. An English painter travels to a small island off the west coast of Ireland. Mr. Lloyd takes the last leg by curragh, though boats with engines are available and he doesnt much like the sea. He wants the authentic experience, to be changed by this place, to let its quiet and light fill him, give him room to create. He doesnt know that a Frenchman follows close behind., Masson has visited the island for many years, studying their language. He is fiercely protective of their isolation; it is essential to exploring his theories of language preservation and identity. But the people who live on this rockthree miles long and half a mile widehave their own views on what is being recorded, what is being taken, and what ought to be given in return., Over the summer, each of themfrom great-grandmother Bean U Fhloinn to widowed Mairad and fifteen-year-old James, who is determined to avoid the life of a fishermanwill wrestle with their own values and desires. Meanwhile, al
