The Speckled People
Hugo Hamilton
The author would like to thank Colm Tóibín and Eileen Ahearn for their generous help and encouragement with The Speckled People. Many thanks also to Colum McCann, Joseph O’Connor, Seán Ó Riain, Hans Christian Oeser, Gerald Dawe, Leo Lecours and John Smallwood. The author also wishes to acknowledge the financial assistance of Aosdána and The Arts Council in Dublin, as well as the financial support and hospitality of DAAD in Berlin and Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg.
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‘I wait for the command to show my tongue. I know he’s going to cut it off, and I get more and more scared each time.’
Elias Canetti
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