Edna O'Brien
autor
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 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.
Vypredané
12,58 €
