Anne Enright

Fenomen editorial de l’any, La trobada, guanyadora del prestigiós premi Man Booker 2007, ha permès al món descobrir una de les veus literàries més singulars que han sorgit d’Irlanda en els últims any

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him, although that certainly helped; it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, just for another little while.The Gathering is a family epic, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye. It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations, starting with the grandmother, Ada Merriman, showing how memories warp and family secrets fester. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. As in all Anne Enright's work, fiction and non-fiction, this is a book of daring, wit and insight: her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction, and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.

"Veronica ha quasi quarant''anni e vive a Dublino con il marito e due figlie. Un giorno, nel 1988, riceve l''annuncio della morte di Liam, il fratello piu amato e il piu vicino a lei per eta: suicidio. Non basta, dunque, organizzare il funerale e assolvere ai doveri di circostanza di una famiglia tradizionale e molto numerosa. Veronica vuole sapere di piu di questo amato fratello; deve capire perche si sia ucciso. Tutto risale all''infanzia di Liam e Veronica: un triangolo amoroso tra adulti e le molestie subite da Liam, anzi no, da Veronica. Qui il ricordo di Veronica si fa confuso. Veronica sovrappone il suo fastidio per il sesso con il suo attuale marito a quel trauma subito molti anni prima e alla particolare simbiosi con un fratello che non puo piu aiutarla a costruire la verita dei suoi ricordi... "

This title was shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award. It is longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion - a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them. The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. Anne Enright is addicted to the truth of things. Sentence by sentence, there are few writers alive who can invest the language with such torque and gleam, such wit and longing - who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud, who can show us the million splinters of her characters' lives then pull them back up together again, into a perfect glass

A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion - a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them. The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. Anne Enright is addicted to the truth of things. Sentence by sentence, there are few writers alive who can invest the language with such torque and gleam, such wit and longing - who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud, who can show us the million splinters of her characters' lives then pull them back up together again, into a perfect glass.

A short novel of quite remarkable depth, power and poignancy by a writer at the height of his powers. It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. ON CHESIL BEACH is another masterwork from Ian McEwan - a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. ''Extraordinary mastery of detail, it''s McEwan''s best yet... prepare to be dazzled... A masterpiece from a novelist at the height of his powers.'' - The Bay Post ''Described in warm, meticulous prose'' - Independent Weekly ''A stunningly successful tour de force'' - Kurt Vonnegut ''Always powerful and intelligent'' - Who Magazine ''Precise and expressive'' - Good Reading Magazine ''Only McEwan continues to keep both readers and critics on side. His latest is a haunting tale... that will carve itself into your cranium.'' - Arena

"The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him - something that happened in their grandmother''s house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester."--BOOK JACKET.

"Eliza, una ragazza irlandese di straordinaria bellezza e intelligenza, incontra a Parigi Francisco Lopez, il primogenito del dittatore del Paraguay. Rimasta incinta di lui, lo segue nel suo paese, accompagnata per la gravidanza e il parto da Stewart, un medico chiamato appositamente dall''Europa per assistere Eliza. Osteggiata dalla famiglia del suo amante e da tutta la societa locale, Eliza riesce comunque a imporsi all''attenzione, da una parte conquistando l''ammirazione di tutti grazie alla sua gentilezza, dall''altra attirandosi l''antipatia di molti a causa della sua presunta mutevolezza politica. Poco a poco, assume cosi per il Paraguay il ruolo che Evita Peron ha avuto per l''Argentina. A raccontarci la sua storia, sono lei stessa e il suo medico alcolizzato Stewart. "

Una novela sobre la memoria y el deseo, sobre el destino escrito en nuestro cuerpo.La aclamadísima novela, premio Booker de 2007, cuenta la oscura historia del clan Hegarty.Cuando sus nueve miembros se reunen en Dublin para el velatorio de su hermano Liam, todo parece indicar que la bebida no fue la unica causa de su muerte. Algo le ocurrio de niño en casa de su abuela, en el invierno de 1968.Algo que su hermana Veronica siempre supo pero nunca se atrevio a admitir hasta ahora...

The stories in Taking Pictures are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grainy texture of real life: freshly palpable, sensuous and deeply flawed. From Dublin to Venice, from an American college dorm to a holiday caravan in France, these are stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright's women are haunted by children, and by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out.A woman's one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another's is thwarted by an swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. These are sharp, vivid stories of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers.

Nostalgic, dark, comic, iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories written in the last sixty years, by authors from Elizabeth Bowen and Frank O'Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change, and shows the ease and pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short story form. There is no truth so telling as a small truth, or so much fun. Also includes stories by: Maeve Brennan, Mary Lavin, William Trevor, John McGahern, Colum McCann, Colm Toibin.

In Yesterday''s Weather, Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright presents a series of deeply moving stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright''s characters are haunted by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out. A woman''s one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another''s is thwarted by a swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. These are sharp, vivid stories of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers.

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn''t the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother''s house, in the winter of 1968. The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

La aclamadísima novela, premio Booker de 2007, cuenta la oscura historia del clan Hegarty. Cuando sus nueve miembros se reúnen en Dublín para el velatorio de su hermano Liam, todo parece indicar que la bebida no fue la unica causa de su muerte. Algo le ocurrio de niño en casa de su abuela, en el invierno de 1968. Algo que su hermana Veronica siempre supo pero nunca se atrevio a admitir hasta ahora...

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is as sensuous and polished as an ornate painting Daily TelegraphBeautiful Irishwoman Eliza Lynch became briefly, in the 1860s, the richest woman in the world.

From the greatest living Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughters search to understand her mothers hidden truths*LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2020*From the Booker-winning Irish author, a brilliant and moving novel about fame, sexual power, and a daughters search to understand her mothers hidden truthsThis is the story of Irish theatre legend Katherine ODell, as told by her daughter Norah. It tells of early stardom in Hollywood, of highs and lows on the stages of Dublin and Londons West End. Katherines life is a grand performance, with young Norah watching from the wings.But this romance between mother and daughter cannot survive Katherines past, or the worlds damage. As Norah uncovers her mothers secrets, she acquires a few of her own. Then, fame turns to infamy when Katherine decides to commit a bizarre crime.Actress is about a daughters search for the truth: the dark secret in the bright star, and what drove Katherine finally mad.Brilliantly capturing the glamour of post-war America and the shabbiness of 1970s Dublin, Actress is an intensely moving, disturbing novel about mothers and daughters and the men in their lives. A scintillating examination of the corrosive nature of celebrity, it is also a sad and triumphant tale of freedom from bad love, and from the avid gaze of the crowd.