If you've read it, sound off in the comments! I'd love to discuss. I recommend this book to anyone and sincerely hope it isn't forgotten. Exodus Leon Uris 3.99 - 54.09 Trinity Leon Uris 3.59 - 28.57 Mila 18 Leon Uris 4.39 - 18.99 Battle Cry Leon Uris 3.99 - 33.36 Redemption Leon Uris 3. Further, Uris nails the perspectives of the oppressed and the oppressor, along with doing a superb job of putting the reader directly into the heart of Ireland at that time. The depiction of some of the decayed aspects of religion, specifically within catholicism, is chilling in accuracy.

Trinity put me through the widest range of emotions of any piece of writing I've ever consumed. I'm not sure how this story seems to have been passed on by so many.

Years after his death, he remains one of the most popular storytellers of the twentieth century - this is one of his most celebrated novels. The other prominent viewpoints are from that of a few royalty-class Protestants bent on continuing the subjugation of the Irish at the hands of the British. Leon Uriss skill is in capturing a subject seemingly too big to handle and distilling the very essence of that struggle into passionate prose. The story is told from the perspective of multiple people, but primarily from the lens of two Irish Catholic boys from a small village. In my own words, Trinity is the story of Irish Catholic suffering ranging from the potato famine all the way to the start of WW1. Memorable enough for me for a name to stick in naming our son many years later. GenresHistorical FictionFictionIrelandHistoricalIrish LiteratureClassicsWar. As indicated in the title, I finished Leon Uris' 1976 Irish historical fiction this morning. Trinity is a bit long, and perhaps a bit one sided in telling the tale of the struggles in Northern Ireland. Trinity is a saga of glories and defeats, triumphs and tragedies, lived by a young Catholic rebel and the beautiful and valiant Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join him.

Trinity by Leon Uris