| International Standard Book Number |
9798217287796
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| Personal Name |
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author. aut
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| Title Statement |
Land : [large print] a novel / Maggie O'Farrell.
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| Edition Statement |
First large print edition.
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| Imprint |
2026.
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Random House Large Print, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
609 pages (large print) : map ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"On a windswetp peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomaas and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnancs Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in acountry not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, thetask is not an easy one. Tomaas, 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 Tomaas is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and the lives of those in 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 Tomaas,and hos is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping and getthem both home?"--Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Large type books.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Fathers and sons Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Maps Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Surveyors Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ireland Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Large print books.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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