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The Dirty Dust: Cré Na Cille

by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, translated by Alan Titley

NPR Books We Love · Recommendation

The Dirty Dust: Cré Na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain, translated by Alan Titley appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, tales from around the world, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.

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