The pain of emigration runs through Ireland’s story like a thread. Very few contemporary books capture the ordeals faced by emigrants as vividly as Annie Proulx’s 1996 Accordion Crimes.

ANNIE PROULX is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author best known for The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain. 

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RECLUSIVE author Annie Proulx arrived in Ireland yesterday to open a literary festival and will spend the next few days in west Cork researching a new book.

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