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

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.

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.

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 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.

Star de la scène et du grand écran dans les années 1960 et 1970, l’actrice irlandaise Katherine O’Dell a vu sa carrière s’interrompre brutalement au seuil de la quarantaine, avant qu’un acte de viole

She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different. Anne Enrights astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the

Meanwhile as her TV day job on the Love Quiz begins to spiral out of control, on the other side of her life is her father, benign, bewigged and stricken by a stroke -apparently mad but probably the s

Star de la scène et du grand écran dans les années 1960 et 1970, l’actrice irlandaise Katherine O’Dell a vu sa carrière s’interrompre brutalement au seuil de la quarantaine, avant qu’un acte de viole

"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... "

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.

"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. "

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

La valse oubliée est le roman d’un double déclin. Celui de la prospérité matérialiste et celui de l’amour. Avec la verve et l’insolence qu’on lui connaît, Anne Enright, l’auteur de Retrouvailles (Act

La valse oubliée est le roman d’un double déclin. Celui de la prospérité matérialiste et celui de l’amour. Avec la verve et l’insolence qu’on lui connaît, Anne Enright, l’auteur de Retrouvailles (Act

Rosaleen Madigan et ses quatre grands enfants passent un dernier noël dans la maison familiale - elle sera bientôt vendue, et les souvenirs dispersés.En soumettant cette réunion familiale et le passé