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Everything in this Country Must. Wood. Hunger Strike

McCann, Colum, 1965-.... (author)
One powerful novella, with two thematically linked short stories on either side of it, forms the basis of "Everything in this Country Must". Although these are stories about Ireland and the Troubles, they have an almost mythical rather than a political feel. In the title story, four young soldiers help a farmer and his daughter free their horse from a stream in flood, unable to understand that... Show more…

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