Its the year 1865 and the American Civil War is ending. Eighteen years after the famine ship Star of the Sea docked at New York, the daughter of two of her passengers sets out from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on a walk across a devastated America. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a young boy she has not seen in four years, one of the hundred thousand children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious and will prove extraordinary. It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors: a love-struck cartographer, a haunted Latina poetess, rebel guerrilla Cole McLaurenson, runaway slave Elizabeth Longstreet and the mercurial revolutionary James Con O'Keeffe, who commanded a brigade of Irish immigrants in the Union Army and is now Governor of a western wilderness where nothing is as it seems."Redemption Falls" is a tale of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. Packed with music, balladry, poetry and storytelling, this is a riveting historical novel of urgent contemporary resonance, from the author of the internationally bestselling "Star of the Sea".
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Joseph O'Connor nació en el sur de Dublín en 1963. Es autor de novelas como «Cowboys and Indians», «Shadowplay», «Reyes vagabundos» o «El crimen del Estrella del Mar», que vendió más de un millón de copias y ha sido traducida a cuarenta idiomas. O’Connor también ha escrito y adaptado obras de teatro, así como guiones para cine y radio. Su faceta de locutor lo ha puesto en contacto con músicos como Camille O’Sullivan, los Chieftains o el compositor Brian Byrne. Ha recibido numerosos premios literarios, como el Irish PEN, el Hennessy Hall of Fame Award for Irish Fiction, el Prix Millepages de Francia, el Premio Acerbi italiano y el Premio Madeleine Zepter a la novela europea del año. Es Embajador Honorario del Centro de Escritores Irlandeses de Dublín.