Edna O'Brien
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Lonely Girl
''Surprising and beautiful and courageous .. A beacon.'' Megan Nolan''Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.'' Eimear McBride Caithleen ''Kate'' Brady and Bridget ''Baba'' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to fight the expectations forced upon ''girls'' of every era to become brave new women.This is the second novel in Edna O''Brien''s trilogy which revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. Banned by the authorities as ''indecent'' and burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers to this day.
In the Forest
The spruces are so close together that the barks are a sable-brown. Michael O'Kane is known as the 'Kinderschrek', the 'child scarer'. He haunts Cloosh Wood in western Ireland. As a boy he lost his mother and by the age of ten he was in prison. Now he seeks sacrificial victims to satisfy his delusional fantasies: a beautiful young mother, her infant son and a trusting priest, who are enticed into the forest. Inspired by a real triple homicide, this novel is a 'tour de force of finely restrained fury' (Newsday).
Down By The River
The road silent, somnolent yet with a speech of its own, speaking back to them, father and child, through trappings of sun and fretted verdure, speaking of the old mutinies and a fresh crime mounting in the blood. The local community is shocked when a young teenager, Mary, attempts to get an illegal abortion, especially when they discover that she has been raped by her father. O'Brien charts Mary's emotional and psychological trauma, as her story is dragged first into the public realm and then into the law courts, with her power of choice usurped by militant factions on all sides. A haunting novel based on a real events.
House of Splendid Isolation
History is everywhere. It seeps into the soil, the sub-soil. Like rain, or hail, or snow, or blood.Josie O’Grady is an elderly woman, living alone in her dilapidated big house on the outskirts of a rural Irish village. Then one day her bedroom door swings open to reveal McGreevy, an IRA terrorist on a bloody crusade, who has chosen her isolated house for sanctuary. As days pass, these two outsiders develop a grudging respect for each other, which grows into affection and friendship, but the police net is closing in and, with dawning horror, Josie starts to suspect that McGreevy is not only using her house as a refuge.Based on interviews with the IRA leader Dominic McGlinchy in Portlaoise Prison and published four years before the Good Friday Agreement, this thrilling, political, poetic novel is a portrait of the state of the Irish nation at the height of the Troubles.
The Light of Evening
Such is the wrath of the mothers, such is the cry of the mothers, such is the lamentation of the mothers.Ageing Dilly Macready lies in her hospital bed in Dublin, awaiting a final visit from her estranged daughter, Eleanora, an author who fled rural Ireland years before, after her sensual first novel caused a local scandal. Through memories and journals, both mother and daughter find themselves reliving the strains, disagreements, expectations and disappointments of their complicated relationship, ultimately finding that their enduring connection remains powerful and true.This is a late novel by O''Brien at the height of her powers, in which she delves deep into the beautiful but intense relationship that exists between mothers and daughters.
The Country Girls
The groundbreaking debut novel that set the world alight, from the beloved great Edna O'Brien. We want to live. Drink gin. Squeeze into the front of big cars and drive up outside big hotels. We want to go places. Caithleen is a romantic: she dreams of finding a handsome man who will sweep her away and look after her. Her friend Baba thinks this makes her a right-looking eejit. What she wants is money and glamour. Life. As much of it as she can get. But neither love nor excitement seem possible in their small village, or their convent school. And when they finally make it to Dublin, they find that home isn't as easy to escape as they thought.
Paradise - Faber Stories
An unnamed protagonist is on holiday with her new, much-married lover, in the company of the monstrously rich.
'How long would she last? It would be uppermost in all their minds.'
Each day, while the others are out at sea, she is taught to swim. Eventually, she will be expected to perform. The pressure mounts; it is only a matter of time before she snaps.
Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's near-fatal discomfort stand for society's larger trap.
Kis piros székek
Magát hitgyógyítónak nevező balkáni idegen érkezik egy nyugat-írországi falucskába, és hamarosan bűvkörébe vonja az egész közösséget, különösen megigézve Fidelma McBride-ot. A nő végzetes vonzalma a karizmatikus férfi iránt megdöbbentő következményekkel jár.
Edna O'Brien sodró, feltartóztathatatlanul áradó története nemcsak a gonosz csáberejéről, a reményről, csalódásról és árulásról szól, a továbblépés lehetőségét is felvázolja.
A Kis piros székek az első oldaltól az utolsóig fogva tartja az olvasót, és miközben bátran szembenéz korunk számos aggasztó erkölcsi kérdésével, egy percre sem téveszti szem elől a sötétségben fel-felragyogó emberséget.
Edna O'Brien 1930-ban született Nyugat-Írországban. Első regénye, a Vidéki lányok megjelenése óta több mint húsz szépirodalmi művet írt. Munkásságát számos díjjal ismerték el, egyebek közt megkapta az Ír PEN Klub Életmű-díját, az Amerikai Művészeti Arany Emlékérmet és a Frank O'Connor-díjat. Évtizedek óta Londonban él.
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