Hostages – Short Stories by (Oisin) Oisín Fagan
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Overview: Comprised of only five stories, Hostages is packed with ideas and ideology seeking to outline the current state of Irish society and where it might be headed. Near-future dystopias, most of them set in Meath, offer grotesque echoes of today’s world. A hundred years from now, America is building a wall, jettisoning all but its most necessary trade partners. Students make bombs to blow up their schools. Past horrors are revisited. The so-called “death planes” used by the junta dictatorship to murder dissenters in the Argentine Dirty War wreak chaos in the Irish countryside. In Fagan’s surreal worlds the logic of the absurd reigns. Love and violence, birth and death, evolution and extinction – each of the stories is, in its own way, a call to arms by the author to take note of what passes over us as news each day. There is a strong social conscience to this collection, echoed in the acknowledgements where one of the stories is dedicated to the homeless children of Ireland. A spoken word quality to the writing helps to get the author’s message across.
In 2016, Fagan won the inaugural Penny Dreadful Novella Prize for The Hierophants. Hostages, his first collection, was also published in 2016 by New Island. He is a recipient of the 2016 Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics Short Stories
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