Best Selling Books by Anne Enright

A crowd of siblings gathers in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother in this “stunning” novel by the award-winning author of Actress (The Washington Post). The surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering for the wake of their wayward, alcoholic brother, Liam, drowned in the sea after filling his pockets with stones. He is the third of the twelve Hegarty siblings to die. 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 prize-winning author Anne Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The Gathering is an “wonderfully elegant and unsparing” epic of an Irish family (Los Angeles Times)—a novel about love and disappointment, how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. “Entrancing…a haunting look at a broken family stifled by generations of hurt and disappointment, struggling to make peace with the irreparable.”—Entertainment Weekly “A melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly.”—Publishers Weekly “Her sympathy for her characters is as tender and subtle as Alice McDermott’s; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O’Brien’s. The Gathering is her best book.”—Colm Toibin “Hypnotic.”—Booklist (starred review)

An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women. Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless, full of verve and wit, twenty-two-year-old Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s home to find her voice as a writer and live a life of her choosing. Carmel, too, knows the magic of her Daddo’s poetry—and the broken promises within its verses. When Phil abandons the family, Carmel struggles to reconcile “the poet” with the man whose desertion scars Carmel, her sister, and their cancer-ridden mother. The Wren, the Wren brings to life three generations of women who contend with inheritances—of abandonment and of sustaining love that is “more than a strand of DNA, but a rope thrown from the past, a fat twisted rope, full of blood.” In sharp prose studded with crystalline poetry, Anne Enright masterfully braids a family story of longing, betrayal, and hope.

One of the Guardian''s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "With language so vibrant it practically has a pulse, Enright makes an exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love and transformation at any age." —People From internationally acclaimed 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. Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen''s four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. 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. A profoundly moving work about a family''s desperate attempt to recover the relationships they''ve lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright''s most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.

From a Man Booker Prize–winning author, a “hauntingly eloquent” novel of love, loss, family, and what a woman finds while in search of herself (The Seattle Times). Born in Dublin in 1965, Maria Delahunty was raised by her grieving father after her mother died during childbirth. Two decades later, Maria is living in New York awash in longing and in love with the wrong man. Going through his things, she discovers a photograph of a little girl who looks an awful lot like her—but isn’t her. Soon Maria begins to unravel a long-buried secret more devastating than her father’s mourning, but bursting with possibility . . . “Glittering . . . An Irish woman with a plate of steel somewhere between her skin and her heart . . . must travel back and forth, from childhood memories to the present, ratcheting herself up to adulthood as so many of us do.” —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review “So sad that you want to laugh out loud. [This novel] deals with areas of experience and patterns of living that no one else has noticed.” —Colm Tóibín, New York Times–bestselling author of Brooklyn “The emotional tautness springing from bare-bones storytelling suggests Raymond Carver. The penetrative exploration of domestic relationships, especial among women, calls to mind . . . Anne Tyler.” —Newsday

Longlisted for the 2020 Women''s Prize for Fiction One of Time''s 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 “A critique, a confession, a love letter—and another brilliant novel from Anne Enright.” —Ron Charles, Washington Post Katherine O’Dell is an Irish theater legend. Every moment of her life is a performance, with her daughter, Norah, standing in the wings. With age, alcohol, and dimming stardom, however, Katherine’s grip on reality grows fitful. Fueled by a proud and long-simmering rage, she commits a bizarre crime. As Norah’s role gradually changes to Katherine’s protector, caregiver, and finally legacy-keeper, she revisits her mother’s life of fiercely kept secrets; and Norah confronts in turn the secrets of her own sexual and emotional coming-of-age. With virtuosic storytelling, Actress weaves together two generations of women with difficult sexual histories, touching a raw and timely nerve.

Describes the author''s experiences becoming a middle-aged mother after being married for eighteen years.

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.

From the winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering. “Clever, unsettling, and thoroughly modern . . . We can hear echoes of the Joyce of Dubliners.” —The New York Times Book Review The second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all. Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly senile, but her life otherwise seems fairly solid. When Stephen arrives on her doorstep, however, Grace has no idea what she’s in for. Stephen explains that he is an angel, a former bridge builder who committed suicide in 1934. He has been sent back to earth (as all suicides are) to guide lost souls. Grace does not take this personally at first, but eventually she has to face the idea that things are not so easy, and that her greatest intimacy is with this supernatural creature. As Grace begins to take stock of her life and the prospect of caring enough about something to fight for it, The Wig My Father Wore takes us on a moving, surreal romp through Catholicism, parents, and the reclamation of love from the twin modern evils of cynicism and the detritus of pop culture. “Weird and wonderful . . . Enright beams out a vibrant and complex picture of religion, sex, love, and redemption united in a celestial blue, televisual glow of wit and linguistic sedition.” —The Guardian (London) “Mesmerizing.” —The Independent on Sunday (London)

During a snowstorm, Gina Moynihan reminisces the string of events that brought her the love of her life, Sean Vallely, and recalls their affair.

The novel opens in Paris, in the midst of the sexual embrace that makes Eliza Lynch the mistress of Francisco Solano López, the third dictator of Paraguay. She is nineteen years old but wise beyond her years-initiated into sex by a Mr. Bennett, a friend of her family''''s, while still at school, she has had many lovers and even been married, to an abusive Frenchman named Quatrefages from whom she escaped in north Africa to return to Paris. She is currently a society paramour who maintainsa respectable façade even while sleeping with a dressmaker in exchange for credit. López is a young comer in Paraguayan politics, the son of the current dictator, who is in Europe on a diplomatic tour and to recruit engineers and others to help on his plan to build the first railway in South America. He goes to Eliza Lynch for French lessons, but history has other plans for them. A few months later, Eliza realizes she is pregnant.Eliza accompanies López on his tour of the continent and they are now aboard the Tacuarí, having made the Atlantic crossing and navigating the Rio Parana towards Asunción, Paraguay, López''''s home. Hugely pregnant, Eliza swings in a hammock feeling simultaneously imperious (she drinks champagne, cooled by being dragged through the river''''s water on a rope; she presides over card games which mimic the high society she has left behind and gets to know the English engineer andScottish doctor her husband has hired) and helpless, completely out of her element in a tropical, buggy landscape. But Eliza is a quick study-she befriends Miltón, her husband''''s Guaraní Indian servant, who teaches her to starch her dresses with porridge to combat the humidity, as the locals do, and quickly begins to think about fixing up Francine, her maid, with one of the men her husband has recruited to assist in his nationalist ambitions. Eliza proves herself a formidable woman, with exactly the right combination of strength, will, resources, and the strategic ability to make allowances for the powerful that will prove her, over the course of López''''s rule, his most powerful ally. When it becomes clear López-"my dear friend" as Eliza calls him-wants to sleep with Francine himself, Eliza sends the girl off to him, consolidating her own power even as she betrays herself. As they arrive in Asunción, she dresses in a lilac gown that is at the cutting edge of Paris fashion, astonishing the crowd at the pier with her poise, her beauty, her blonde, physical foreignness, even as she is going into labor. Throughout the book, chapters that tell the story of the journey up the Rio Parana, written in Eliza''''s voice, are interspersed with chapters narrated mostly by Dr. Stewart, the Scottish physician, telling of the legend she later becomes, of the war her husband wages, and of its consequences for her and the men whose company she kept in the elegiac, innocentdays aboard the Tacuarí.Eliza becomes a scandal when they reach Paraguay. From the moment of their arrival in Asunción, which quickly gains the status of popular legend as Eliza''''s union with López becomes a national fact, she is a larger-than-life figure. López''''s family rejects her, but the strength of his will-he is a man whose ambitions may not be refused, from the quotidian desire to possess a woman, to the political desire that will shape Paraguayan history-establishes Eliza as something they will have to deal with. Her son is born, though Stewart, who was to have been her personal physician, is so horrified by her as a person that he does not attend the birth. She has the boy christened in order to make him the legitimate heir (despite his bastard origins and the existence of another son by López''''s previous mistress). The women of Paraguayan society shun her-she builds a beautiful Quinta (villa) where she entertains all the strategically important men, but none of the women will befriend her. She hosts a picnic on board the Tacuarí to celebrate the importation of some Basque peasants who are supposed to build a new town. All the women of Asunción attend, but none of them will speak to her. As retaliation, she has Miltón, in the role of major-domo, throw all the food overboard, and keeps the ship at anchor in the hot sun for most of the day, until the women are fainting from the heat. In an act which hastens the old López''''s decline and her lover''''s ascent to head of state, Eliza builds a gorgeous theater, modeled on the great theaters of Europe, and mounts a play written by a European actor she has imported, but based on Paraguayan national themes. It is her bid for the office, even if only symbolic, of Paraguayan First Lady. Francine, the maid, dies horribly, of a tropical illness that eats away much of her jaw and facial features-and in treating Francine, Stewart reconciles with Eliza.In 1865, three years after his father''''s death, López''''s territorial disputes with Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay lead to the War of the Triple Alliance, with tiny Paraguay at war with all tttttthree nations. Dr. Stewart, the Scottish doctor we met on the Tacuarí (and who is now married to a Paraguayan society girl named Venancia Baez, whom he has grown to intermittently love and find extremely annoying), watches as the war grows and becomes ever more bloody and farcical-it will eventually result in the deaths of what is reportedly half the national population-and López''''s sanity becomes more and more questionable. He envisions the war as a vast canvas of would-be heroism and actual shame and ruin. And whither López, so goes Eliza. Rumors are that it is her ambition and rapaciousness more than his that spurs on the war; that she is his procuress, providing him with an endless succession of girls whose virginity she verifies herself; even that she is a cannibal whoeats the battlefield dead. Public appearances are more and more rare, but Stewart does see her in the road near a graveyard late one night, walking without her usual entourage, completely alone. He follows her for a time, then catches up and walks her home, and at the door kisses her, and magnifies that kiss in his imagination into a sexual embrace. It is not until years later that he realizes she must have been visiting the grave of a child who died in infancy. She gives a dinner-party for himand some of the rising officers of the army, and in a brief moment away from company reveals her sadness to him. All of the officers are a little in love with her, Stewart reflects. She reveals that Benigno, her husband''''s brother, hates her and plots against her, which is why she has come to the front. She has now borne López several sons.The final action of the war takes place with Eliza''''s black coach-a carriage she has had painted with twelve coats of black lacquer, and drawn by midnight-colored horses-leading the Paraguayan army into retreat. López''''s madness is full-blown. He is demanding absolute, blind allegiance from all of his countrymen and executes men daily for disloyalty, including his own family (particularly the brother who alienated Eliza). Stewart, exhausted after five years at war, is led through the battlefield by a Guaraní Indian girl who becomes obscurely comforting to him in the long absence of his wife. He finds comfort in her arms once but realizes she is younger than he thought and, after that, merely relies on her for someone to warm himself against in the night. He has become López''''s personal doctor which requires him to examine his stool and dress his gonorrheic penis in chalk to prevent (or stave off) its drip. Eliza, too, is losing her mind-her firstborn son, who has becomea kind of golden symbol for the possible new Paraguay, reveals that she does not sleep at night, subsisting on naps for a few minutes at a time. At night, Stewart can hear her in her tent, fighting with López. "When will you marry me?" she shouts. But López''''s irrefutable will takes her over once again and soon they are making love.It is only a matter of time, however, before the Brazilian army overtakes them, and when they do López is immediately shot and killed (though, like Rasputin, there is some suggestion that he was still alive when he fell off his horse into the river and drowned). Stewart, still on the battlefield, manages to avoid being killed himself by brandishing his forceps, and the men watch (unable to join in on penalty of being shot) as Eliza, iron of will to the end, digs a grave for her lover and their dead sons and buries them with her own hands.Stewart''''s last glimpse of Eliza Lynch occurs three years later in Edinburgh, where he has brought Venancia and his family. He and Venancia have rediscovered a sweet, middle-aged love and she has taken to life in Scotland. One day he is strolling the main road with his daughter when he sees the Indian Miltón, still in Eliza''''s service, standing by her coach. Then he sees Eliza herself, walking up to a door, regal as ever and her golden hair flaming in the sun. He realizes she must have made some sort of deal with Camarrá, the Brazilian general, recalling her exodus in chains (but alive, and accompanied by all of her belongings and retinue). And now she is in Edinburgh, likely visiting her lawyers regarding money Stewart brought with him out of Paraguay, taxes on the export of yerba mate which were granted to him by López years before.

From the author of the Man Booker Prize— winning literary sensation and long-time Globe and Mail bestseller The Gathering, comes a dazzling, seductive new collection of stories. “Anne Enright’s style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion’s; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro’s; . . . her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O’Brien’s.” — Colm Tóibín A rich collection of sharp, vivid stories of loss and yearning, of the ordinary defeats and unexpected delights that grow out of the bonds between husbands and wives, mothers and children, and intimate strangers. Bringing together in a single elegant edition new stories as well as a selection of stories never before published in Canada (from her UK published The Portable Virgin, 1991), Yesterday’s Weather exhibits the unsettling, carefully drawn reality, the subversive wit, and the awkward tenderness that mark Anne Enright as one of the most thrillingly gifted writers of our time.

Rosaleen ist eine Frau, die nichts tut und von den anderen alles erwartet. Sie ist Mitte siebzig, die vier Kinder sind schon lange aus dem Haus. Die Brüder Dan und Emmett sind vor der Enge der irischen Heimat in die Ferne geflohen; das Nesthäkchen Hanna wollte auf den Theaterbühnen der Welt reüssieren, spricht aber nun dem Alkohol zu, und Constance, die Älteste, hat sich selbst verloren. Doch abgenabelt hat sich keines der Kinder. Noch immer versucht jedes auf seine Weise, es dieser besten aller Mütter recht zu machen. Und scheitert. Da kommt die Einladung zu einem letzten Weihnachtsfest in Ardeevin. Rosaleen möchte das Haus, in dem die Kinder groß geworden sind, das voller Erinnerungen an glückliche Momente und Verletzungen steckt, verkaufen. Die Geschwister reisen mit diffuser Hoffnung auf Versöhnung an – und doch endet es, wie noch jedes Weihnachten geendet hat. Booker-Preisträgerin Anne Enright wagt sich auf den dunklen Grund unserer Gefühle, studiert menschliches Verhalten dort, wo es am störanfälligsten ist, wo Liebe und Hass nahe beieinander liegen und es kein oder zumindest kein einfaches Entrinnen gibt: in der Familie.

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 reúnen en Dublín para el velatorio de su hermano Liam, todo parece indicar que la bebida no fue la única causa de su muerte. Algo le ocurrió de niño en casa de su abuela, en el invierno de 1968. Algo que su hermana Verónica siempre supo pero nunca se atrevió a admitir hasta ahora...

Veronica Hegarty viene da una famiglia cattolica tradizionale come ce ne sono tante in Irlanda. Anche ora che ha una sua famiglia, con un marito e due giovani figlie, il legame con la madre settantenne e con i suoi otto fratelli e sorelle rimasti è sempre molto forte anche se contrastato. In particolare con Liam, il fratello a cui è sempre stata più legata, nonostante fosse il più scapestrato. Quando Liam viene trovato morto nei pressi di Brighton, Veronica sa che a ucciderlo non è stato l’alcool. O almeno non solo. Le radici dei problemi del fratello affondavano in qualcosa che era successo a casa dei nonni molti anni prima, e a cui lei aveva assistito. Mentre Veronica organizza il funerale del fratello, ed è costretta a dedicarsi a tutti quei doveri di circostanza che sono imprescindibili in quelle dolorose situazioni, non può fare a meno di intraprendere un viaggio nei ricordi, nei traumi, nelle paure, nelle ossessioni e nei segreti che popolano il suo passato e quello di Liam. Perché solo ricordando si può andare avanti e non è possibile fuggire da ciò che si è e da quel che si ama. Con La veglia, vincitore del Booker Prize, Anne Enright ha mostrato al mondo il suo talento e un’incredibile capacità di raccontare la quotidianità, l’intimità, il dolore, la redenzione di una famiglia. Di solito, con l’andar del tempo, i fratelli diventano meno importanti. Liam aveva deciso di non farlo. Aveva deciso di restare importante, fino all’ultimo. “Questo romanzo è chiaramente frutto di una grande intelligenza, che si somma a un talento per l’osservazione e la deduzione.” The Guardian “Anne Enright tende imboscate come solo la memoria sa fare, ti trascina in un ricordo e poi mette in dubbio la sua veridicità.” The Sunday Telegraph

Die Gewinnerin des Booker-Preises 2007! Der Hegarty-Clan versammelt sich in Dublin, um Liam, das schwarze Schaf der Familie, zu Grabe zu tragen – doch schnell gerät der Anlass zur Nebensache. Nur Veronica wagt es, nach den Umständen zu fragen, die ihren Bruder in den Tod getrieben haben mögen. Ein beeindruckend intensiver Roman über die Frage nach Schuld und Verantwortung, nach der Liebe und ihren Folgen. Als Kinder haben sie sich stets alle Geheimnisse anvertraut, und auch als Erwachsene sind Veronica und ihr Bruder Liam noch immer aufs Engste miteinander verbunden. Doch dann stürzt Liam sich mit Steinen in den Hosentaschen ins Meer, und Veronica bleibt allein zurück mit der Frage nach dem Warum. Während sie im Dubliner Elternhaus die Beerdigung vorbereitet, überwältigen sie die Erinnerungen an ihre Kindheit, an ihre Großmutter, die aus Vernunftgründen auf die Liebe ihres Lebens verzichtete, an ihre Mutter, die sich nach den vielen Geburten und Fehlgeburten nicht einmal die Namen all ihrer Kinder merken konnte. Und an jenen Tag, an dem ihrem Bruder Liam, gerade neun Jahre alt, etwas angetan wurde, vor dem sie ihn hätte beschützen müssen. Ein bewegender Roman, dessen sprachliche Finesse und eindrucksvolle Bildlichkeit einen bisher ungekannten Blick auf das verletzliche Wesen der menschlichen Seele zu werfen vermag.

Ein berührender Roman über die unerfüllte Liebe einer Tochter zu ihrer Mutter Norah blickt zurück auf das Leben ihrer Mutter, der einst gefeierten Schauspielerin Katherine O’Dell: Von irischen Dorfbühnen hat sie es bis nach Hollywood geschafft. Doch mit zunehmendem Alter verblasste ihr Ruhm, sie betäubte sich mit Alkohol und Tabletten, bis es eines Tages zu einem bizarren Skandal kam: Ohne Vorwarnung schoss sie auf einen Filmproduzenten. Jeder Augenblick in Katherines Leben war große Geste, und Norah war ihr Publikum. Wer aber war diese Frau wirklich, die alles für die Kunst gab und wenig für ihre Tochter? Ein eindringlicher Mutter-Tochter-Roman, frappierend ehrlich, scharfzüngig und augenzwinkernd erzählt. »Eine hellsichtig-wütende Liebeserklärung an die Mutter.« Der Tagesspiegel Ein berührender Roman über die unerfüllte Liebe einer Tochter zu ihrer Mutter Anne Enrights Romane sind Bestseller: über 200.000 verkaufte Bücher in den deutschsprachigen Ländern »Ein brillantes Roman-Porträt.« WAZ »Lässt einen beim Lesen manchmal regelrecht aufjubeln.« Spiegel Online »Enright ist eine Spezialistin für schwierige Familienangelegenheiten.« SWR Bestenliste

Een gewaagde roman over de verlammende kracht van schuldgevoel. Winnaar van de Booker Prize 2007. De samenkomst is een prachtig geschreven epos waarin Anne Enright het portret schetst van drie opeenvolgende generaties van een Ierse familie. Het is ook het verhaal van de ingrijpende gevolgen van het onstuimige liefdesleven van Ada Merriman aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw - een seksuele geschiedenis die pas met de zelfverkozen dood van haar kleinzoon Liam tot een verrassende ontknoping komt.

Eine verhängnisvolle Affäre – leidenschaftlich und schockierend offen Es ist nicht Liebe auf den ersten Blick, als Gina den Familienvater Seán Vallely bei einem Gartenfest kennenlernt. Doch dann treffen sie sich zufällig wieder, trinken zu viel, landen im Bett – und verfallen einander. So beginnt eine verhängnisvolle Affäre, die jahrelang vor den Ehepartnern geheim gehalten wird. Anfangs eine Beziehung voller Leidenschaft und Glück, hält langsam das Schweigen Einzug, Gewissensbisse, Vorwürfe, Schuld – ist es Liebe? Und darf man für diese Liebe das Seelenheil seines Kindes opfern? Anne Enright ist für die schonungslose Unerbittlichkeit bekannt, mit der sie Beziehungslügen seziert – da reicht eine Geste, ein Blick, und schon ist klar: Die Liebenden steuern in den Abgrund der Alltagsnormalität. Mit Anatomie einer Affäre ist der Irin ein würdiger Nachfolger ihres preisgekrönten Romans Das Familientreffen gelungen: schockierend offen, scharfsinnig und von einer psychologischen Präzision, die kein Entrinnen zulässt.

Lebenspralle Geschichten von der Booker-Preisträgerin „Es ist das große Rätsel der Menschheit: Was Männer wollen. Und was sie anzurichten bereit sind, um es zu kriegen.“ „Alles, was du wünschst“ versammelt neunzehn Geschichten der Booker-Preisträgerin Anne Enright, Geschichten über das Chaos der Liebe und über den manchmal doch nicht ganz so kleinen Unterschied, Geschichten voller Lebenskraft, die ihren dunklen Kern meisterhaft hinter einer strahlenden Hülle zu verbergen wissen. Kitty arbeitet in der Bettenabteilung eines Kaufhauses. Gerade wurden Rolltreppen installiert, eine große Neuerung, an die sie sich nicht so recht gewöhnen mag, aber es ist sowieso nichts mehr los bei den Betten. Die Kunden scheinen dringend Schlaf zu brauchen – von Verliebtheit keine Spur. Doch mit dem Auftauchen der Rolltreppen nimmt plötzlich auch Kittys Leben Fahrt auf: Sie, bereits über vierzig, ist noch einmal schwanger geworden! Da bleiben eines Tages die Rolltreppen stehen ... Die Irin Anne Enright spricht auf unerschrockene Art und Weise aus, wie es im Leben vieler Frauen aussieht. Frauen, die von den Geistern des Lebens verfolgt werden, das sie hätten führen können, die Möglichkeiten erahnen und doch zu sehr in ihrem Alltag gefangen sind, um sie zu ergreifen. Ein faszinierendes und zugleich verstörendes Leseerlebnis, so präzise und bildstark wie Enrights preisgekrönter Roman „Das Familientreffen“.

La autora más aclamada de las letras irlandesas, la heredera legítima de Edna O''Brien, llega a Seix Barral con una novela portentosa. Esta es la historia de la leyenda del teatro irlandés Katherine O''Dell: sus inusuales comienzos; su estrellato temprano en Hollywood y ya en la madurez, sus altibajos en Dublín y en el West End de Londres. La vida de Katherine es y ha sido siempre una gran actuación, con su hija Norah mirando desde las bambalinas. Pero esta historia de amor entre madre e hija no puede sobrevivir al pasado de Katherine o al daño que le inflige el mundo. La fama se convertirá en infamia cuando Katherine decida cometer un extraño crimen e inicie un imparable descenso a los infiernos.

Irlanda, 1980. Quando Dan anuncia que pretende ser padre, a jovem Hanna assiste a agonia de sua mãe. Nos anos seguintes, todos os filhos da família Madigan vão deixar a casa da matriarca Rosaleen. Dan parte para o frenesi de Nova York, e precisa lidar com o fantasma da Aids. Costance se vê em um hospital em Limerick, com uma possível tragédia de grandes proporções. Emmet percorre o continente africano e encontra o amor em Mali. E Hanna atravessa o cotidiano da maternidade na moderna Dublin. Quando eles se reúnem para o Natal, segredos e conflitos do passado virão à tona, e toda família precisará encontrar seu caminho de volta para casa. Um livro profundamente impactante sobre laços familiares, "A estrada verde" é Anne Enright em sua melhor forma.

Sammenkomsten er en familiesaga af den mere barske slags. Romanen foregår hhv. i Irland og England og skildrer en irsk familie gennem tre generationer. Titlen refererer til det møde mellem de forskellige familiemedlemmer, der finder sted i anledning af et dødsfald og en begravelse. Liam Hegarty var alkoholiker og begik selvmord i havet ud for Brighton. Hans mor og hans ni efterladte søskende samles i Dublin for at sørge over ham. Fortælleren er hans søster Veronica på 39 år, som er den i søskendeflokken, der stod ham nærmest. Opholdet i Dublin giver hende anledning til at gennemgå familiens turbulente historie i et forsøg på at forstå Liams død. Han døde af druk, ja, men hvorfor drak han? Veronica er overbevist om, at grunden til hans alkoholisme skal findes i hændelser fra barndommen, nærmere bestemt noget der skete, da hun og Liam en overgang boede hos deres bedstemor i 1968. Sammenkomsten er en klog og indsigtsfuld fortælling om familien og alt det gode og onde, den kan rumme. Anne Enright har selv karakteriseret romanen som "...det intellektuelle sidestykke til en Hollywood-tåreperser." Anne Enright (1962) debuterede med sin første roman,The Wig My Father Wore, i 1995. The Gathering er hendes fjerde roman, og hendes første på dansk, og i oktober 2007 fik hun Man Booker-prisen for den. Forfatterskabet er et af de vigtige og vægtige i moderne irsk litteratur, og Anne Enright er bl.a. kendt og berømmet for sit altid skarpe - og ærlige - blik på mennesker og relationerne mellem dem.

Anne Enright at her best: die beliebtesten Kurzgeschichten und weitere bisher unveröffentlichte Erzählungen Die unausgesprochenen Gefühle zwischen Mutter und Tochter, die Einsamkeit einer Affäre, der Stillstand einer großen Liebe: Mit schonungslosem Blick deckt Anne Enright in ihren Erzählungen alle Emotionen zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen auf. Die Grenzen zwischen Liebe und Hass, Glück und Enttäuschung sind fließend, und die Autorin trifft ihre Figuren dort, wo es am persönlichsten ist – den Gefühlen. Mit beklemmender Intensität und meisterhaftem Gespür für Zwischentöne entlarvt Anne Enright in ihren Geschichten die Abgründe der menschlichen Seele. Diese von der Bestsellerautorin getroffene Auswahl präsentiert die beliebtesten Erzählungen aus Enrights Gesamtwerk aus nahezu dreißig Jahren sowie bisher unveröffentlichte Kurzgeschichten.

Katherine O’Dell è una leggenda del teatro irlandese. Sua figlia Norah, nel corso di un’intervista, inizia a tratteggiarne un ritratto, rievocando la figura magnetica e ingombrante della madre. Katherine aveva conosciuto il teatro seguendo la compagnia di cui faceva parte il padre per poi approdare a Londra, Broadway e, infine, Hollywood in un’ascesa fulminea e inarrestabile. Ma il successo, arrivato così rapidamente, altrettanto velocemente la abbandona. Per lei, abituata ai riflettori e alle attenzioni della gente, è un duro colpo che la porta a distaccarsi dalla realtà, in un crescendo di follia che le fa compiere un bizzarro crimine. Raccontando la diva Katherine O’Dell, Norah svela anche la sua storia: il loro rapporto difficile ma forte, i litigi e i chiarimenti, l’atmosfera dell’Irlanda degli anni settanta in cui è cresciuta. Un flusso di coscienza che mischia nostalgia e disincanto, tenerezza e dolore tra il suo dover essere figlia e il voler essere se stessa. Anne Enright costruisce il ritratto raffinato e commovente di due donne allo specchio, due generazioni femminili alle prese con la libertà, il desiderio sessuale, la fragilità, la ricerca della fama, il bisogno dell’amore.

"Nell non ha mai conosciuto suo nonno, il famoso poeta irlandese Phil McDaragh, ma le sue poesie d’amore sembrano parlarle direttamente. Irrequieta, intelligente, piena di verve e arguzia, la ventiduenne Nell lascia la casa, il nido, di sua madre Carmel per trovare la sua voce di scrittrice e vivere la vita che si è scelta. Anche Carmel conosce la magia della poesia di suo padre, ma suo malgrado ricorda soprattutto le promesse non mantenute contenute in quei versi. Infatti, quando Phil abbandona la famiglia, Carmel ha solo dodici anni e da quel momento fatica a riconciliare “il poeta” con l’uomo il cui abbandono ha ferito non solo lei, ma anche la sorella e la loro madre, malata di cancro. Scricciolo, scricciolo è un romanzo intenso che attraversa la storia di tre generazioni di donne e racconta senza pudori le conseguenze di un trauma, le cicatrici profonde che questo lascia e che possono tramandarsi di madre in figlia. Un racconto d’amore, desiderio, dolore e speranza scritto con una prosa cristallina da Anne Enright, una delle voci più importanti della letteratura europea contemporanea. “Un romanzo magnifico.” Sally Rooney “Un trionfo. Fatene tesoro.” The Sunday Times “Enright è una delle scrittrici migliori a raccontare le relazioni familiari.” The New York Times"

Rosaleen er Madigan-familiens vanskelige og pragtfulde matriark. De fire børn er for længst blevet voksne og er flyttet hjemmefra, til Dublin, New York og Mali. Kun den altid pålidelige Constance er blevet boende tæt på moren i den lille by ved den irske atlanterhavskyst. Men da Rosaleen brat beslutter sig for at sælge familiens hus, vender de alle hjem til en sidste jul i barndomshjemmet. Konfronteret med en fortid, som er ved at viskes ud, forsøger de hver især at finde ud af, hvem de er, hvor de kommer fra, og hvem de ønsker at være. En lysende beretning, der spænder over tredive år, og en historie om opbrud, egoisme, medmenneskelighed og stærke, men ikke ukomplicerede familiebånd. Den grønne vej er en velskrevet, intelligent roman om sorg og kærlighed fra en af Irlands største forfattere.

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 (Actes Sud, 2009 ; Booker Prize 2007), fait tomber les masques et déjoue les conventions pour décortiquer les mécanismes d’une passion irlandaise en temps de crise.

Rosaleen is matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grew up, Rosaleen''s four children left the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. 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.