"Say Nothing" Subtitle: A Murder in Northern Ireland Author: [US] Patrick Radden Keefe

※New York Times bestseller

※2019 Non-fiction Book of the Year by The New York Times, Time Magazine, and The Washington Post

※Orwell Prize winner, shortlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction Book of the Year

※Obama's 2019 reading list

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In one of the most notorious cases of the Northern Ireland conflict, mother of ten Joan McConville was abducted from her home in Belfast by masked men in late 1972 and her children never saw her again.

In 2003, five years after the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement was signed, a human skeleton was found on the beach. When the McConville children were told there was a blue pin on the skeleton's clothes, they knew it was their mother.

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Who killed Joan McConville?

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Those who tried to find out the truth seemed to have hit a silent, solid wall: no one wanted to talk about it.

"Whatever you say, say nothing at all," said Nobel Prize winner and Irish poet Seamus Heaney.

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The violence, suspicion, revenge and silence of the Northern Ireland conflict tormented not only the children of the victims, such as McConville, but also the members of the IRA.

Violence, suspicion, revenge and silence, what are all these for?

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This book is a pursuit of the truth about a horrific kidnapping and murder case in Northern Ireland, and uses this murder case as a starting point to analyze the conflict in Northern Ireland and its peace process from the 1960s and 1970s to the present. This book is a solid and credible non-fiction work based on a large amount of research, interviews, and documentary data.