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Title: Understanding the Troubles
Review: I would hesitate calling Mr Eickhoff a genius, but "Fallon's Wake" is a brilliant story, complexing, yet simple in its understanding of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. As a resident of Belfast, I can say that if Mr Eickhoff is not a resident of the country, then he has an uncanny gift for climbing inside of individuals and becoming them. Given the tenacity and ferocity of Fallon, I'm not certain that I would want to meet the author of "Fallon's Week" as an adversary on some dark night. This is one of the best novels I have ever read by anyone about the situation here in Northern Ireland, Irish, American, or English. If not an Irishman, he should be!
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