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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A lot of times with a concept and story like this the ending comes out maudlin or saccharine. Not so in The Country of the Young. Carey does a wonderful job in convincing the reader that this could have happened. The sort of matter-of-factness and blending of fantasy and fiction in the book is what I appreciated and loved most. I generally was sympathetic for the characters, especially Oisin. Little things like including how Oisin becomes aroused when he is frightened really made it for me (not in THAT way) and it definitely helps that Carey is a beautiful writer. I like a book that runs me through the gamut of emotion. There is sadness, joy, whimsy, terror...etc. "In the Country of the Young" is perfect for people who enjoy a good fairytale and just plain lovely writing. (  ) night_owl13 | Feb 15, 2009 |  Oisin is an artist. He's living alone on an island called Tiranogue. The locals there are part-descended from some rescued people from a famine ship. When Oisin was younger he saw ghosts, now he doesn't, so he's quite delighted that again he can see ghosts as his twin's death has haunted him in deeply profound ways. When he finds out that his ghost is Aisling and she was one of the people who survived the wreckage but didn't survive long after that, his life changes, as does hers. Although some of the scenes between Aisling and Oisin are a little troublesome it is an interesting and moving story. Has the quality of a legend while being modern and insightful. I liked how the different aspects of being haunted were treated and it explored several different types of ghosts. (  ) wyvernfriend | May 22, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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On a stormy November night in 1848, a ship carrying more than a hundred Irish emigrants ran aground twenty miles off the coast of Maine. Many were saved, but some were not -- including a young girl who died crying out the name of her brother.
In the present day, the artist Oisin MacDara lives in self-imposed exile on Tiranogue -- the small island where the shipwrecked Irish settled. The past is Oisin's curse, as memories of the twin sister who died tragically when he was a boy haunt him still.
Then on a quiet All Hallows' Eve, a restless spirit is beckoned into his home by a candle flickering in the window: the ghost of the girl whose brief life ended on Tiranogue's shore more than a century earlier. In Oisin's house she seeks comfort and warmth, and a chance at the life that was denied her so long ago.
For a lonely man chained by painful memories, nothing will ever be the same again.
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