Resumo de Impure Blood - Hugo Hamilton

How does a child see our world? How is he located in this universe of violence, wars, and racist hatreds? What does he understand there?
The glance of the child, here is the point of view adopted by Hugo Hamilton in this fascinating novel, whose narrator is small Hamilton become again in a society of the big ones.
Very autobiographical, the novel is said by the voice narrator of a child of a mixed family: German mother, Irish father.
The couple settles in Ireland, after the Second World War. The children are born Irish, but carry of Lederhosen come straight of Germany, and of the pullovers of Aran knitted with the hand. The mother, Irmgard, nostalgic of the country which she left, relate to it, although she comes from a medium anti-Nazi, all the fault of Hitler's Germany, and her children are constantly treated boshes Nazis by their school-fellows, whereas certain Irish mediums, in their hatred of England, congratulate it ?to have given scraped? to the secular enemy.
the father functions on strict rules, which it creates, and which it imposes on all. Initially, each one is held to adhere to his Irish nationalism if extremist that is ridiculous and suspect, including with the eyes of the majority of its compatriots. He should be said that he has a grandfather who fought in the English navy, and whom he feels held to repair this family treason while being done more nationalist than whoever.
The children are obliged to speak Irish, and they are the only ones to do it in the village, whose inhabitants became Anglophone since many years ago. Any English word pronounced in the presence of the father is sanctioned of a drubbing.
the daily cruelty of the relationship between people of the district, the spirit limited of a pitiful father who misses, in addition, one after the other eccentric jobs that he implements to try to improve the marital status, foreseen memories, bit by bit, of the youth of these singular parents, in particular sexual slavery to which the mother was subjected in her youth by an owner having relations in the party national-Socialist, or the consent by the father of his vocation opposed with the priesthood, the tugging between the two languages and cultures of the parents, are as many elements which are offered to intense and lucid interpretation world of the adults, seeming very beautiful step, by the young narrator.
a fresh humor, tinted innocence of childhood, bathes the whole.
The reader leaves the novel perhaps a little more pessimistic, if he still preserved some illusion as for the humanity of the man.
I recommend a remedy, to find the will to fight to hope for one day to change the things: to plunge itself immediately in the splendid book of Maalouf Amine: Fatal identities

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