When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different. Anne Enright's a[...]
Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good ne[...]
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[...]
The Forgotten Waltz is a memory of desire: a recollection of the bewildering speed of attraction, the irreparable slip into longing. In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, in the winter of 2009,it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought [...]
A collection of pained, precise and disquieting stories that restore to us the strangeness of the lives we follow beneath the surface of the lives we lead.[...]
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[...]
Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened. She saw me kissing her father. She saw her father kissing me. The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back.[...]
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 i[...]
In Terenure, a pleasant suburb of Dublin, it has snowed. Gina Moynihan, girl about town, recalls the trail of lust and happenstance that brought her to fall for "the love of her life," Sean Vallely. As the city outside comes to a halt, Gina remembers their affair: long afternoons made blank by bliss[...]
Spanning thirty years and three continents, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigan family, and her four children. Ardeevin, County Clare, Ireland. 1980. When her oldest brother Dan announces he will enter the priesthood, young Hanna watches her mother howl in agony and [...]
"A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other woman Gina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT worker The Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticity. . . . This novel s beauty lies i[...]
A tale of sex, death and reproduction, by the author of "The Portable Virgin". When Stephen arrives on her doorstep and asks for a cup of tea, Grace's life is transfigured. He committed suicide in 1934, but now, nostalgically, he spends his nights hanging by the neck in Grace's shower.[...]
Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2007
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland?s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradi[...]
From internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland s Atlantic coast. "The Green Road" is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them[...]
From internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland s Atlantic coast. "The Green Road" is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them[...]
Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century - from Mary Lavin and Frank O'Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy [...]
Med Den glömda valsen visar Anne Enright återigen att hon är detaljernas mästarinna. Med skärpa, känslighet och stor passion berättar hon denna bitterljuva kärlekshistoria.
Gina Moynihan är strax över trettio år och bor i en förort till Dublin. Under ett snöoväder då hela s[...]
Vuoden 2007 Booker-voittajan intensiivinen, raivoa ja rakkautta hehkuva perhekuvaus Irlannista.Hegartyn perheen hulttiopoika Liam on kävellyt mereen Brightonissa. Kun Veronica saattaa veljensä ruumiin kotiin Dubliniin, hahmottuu hänen mielessään tarina, joka olisi pitänyt kertoa jo kauan sitte[...]
Dublinissa sataa lunta. Harvinainen sääilmiö saa koko kaupungin pysähtymään. Omakotilähiössä Gina Moynihan muistelee suhdettaan Seán Vallelyyn, joka viipyi hänen elämässään vain muutaman salatun hetken mutta jätti lähtemättömän jäljen.Gina kulkee lumen läpi tapaamaan Seánin ha[...]
One day on Brighton beach, wayward but vulnerable Liam Hegarty drowns himself. His sister Veronica, trying to come to terms with the suicide of her beloved brother, begins to take a closer look at her dysfunctional family's history in an attempt to pinpoint the moment at which their lives began to u[...]