New Releases by Anne Enright

Eiendom, materialisme og familiebånd danner bakgrunnen for denne fortellingen, som handler om det intense forholdet mellom Gina Moynihan og Sean Valley. I følge forlaget løfter Anne Enright utroskapsfortellingen til en studie i forbindelser, katastrofe og samvittighetskvaler, alt farget av svart humor. Anne Enright har utgitt to novellesamlinger og fire romaner. "Sammenkomsten" (2008) var hennes første bok på norsk.

De winter van 2009. In een besneeuwde buitenwijk van Dublin herinnert Gina Moynihan zich de combinatie van toeval en lust waardoor ze jaren eerder voor haar grote liefde Seán Vallely viel. Terwijl het leven buiten stil lijkt te staan, denkt Gina terug aan het begin van hun buitenechtelijke affaire en hun ontmoetingen in hotelkamers: eindeloze, geheime, gelukzalige middagen vol gevoelens van ontkenning en schuld. Dan gaat ze in de vrieskou op weg om Evie op te halen, Seáns fragiele twaalfjarige dochter, het meisje dat hun verboden relatie oneindig veel gecompliceerder heeft gemaakt. In deze uitzonderlijke roman schrijft Anne Enright - net als in haar doorbraakroman De samenkomst - over de onverwachte dramatiek van het alledaagse bestaan. In De vergeten wals richt ze zich volledig op het onderwerp liefde, of misschien zelfs romantiek, en met Gina Moynihan heeft ze een hartstochtelijke, intelligente en onvergetelijke heldin gecreëerd.

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.

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...

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.

When he comes to Shelter Bay to help a fellow Marine, Gabriel St. James, who does not see the world as others do, lets his guard down when he meets Charity, a veterinarian with a heart as generous as her name.

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“.

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.

Het weer van gisteren gaat over verlies en verlangen en is geschreven met de bitterzoete tederheid die het werk van Anne Enright kenmerkt. In Het weer van gisteren staat het menselijk bestaan centraal: de relaties die we aangaan met anderen en de relaties die mislukken. De verhalen spelen zich af in Dublin en Venetië, op een Amerikaanse campus en in een caravan op een Franse camping. De vrouwelijke personages in de verhalen worden ontroerd, lastiggevallen of gefascineerd door mannen die ze maar niet kunnen doorgronden. Deze scherpe, schitterende verhalen maken eens te meer duidelijk dat Anne Enright moet worden gezien als een van de beste auteurs van deze tijd.

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.

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.

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.

Em O encontro, a premiada escritora Anne Enright constrói um texto cheio de fúria e de poesia para narrar a história de uma família irlandesa que é obrigada a se reunir, após muito tempo afastada, para o funeral de um de seus membros. PElos olhos de Veronica - mãe de duas meninas e casada com um homem que lhe é cada vez mais distante -, conhecemos o passado da família Hegarty e os dramas que envolveram sua avó, Ada, sua mãe e seus tios, e finalmente seus incontáveis - e desajustados - irmãos.

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)

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

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)

"Ce livre est la chronique, tour à tour émouvante, profonde et désopilante, du chamboulement invraisemblable qu''a provoqué la maternité dans la vie de son auteur. Il nous fait entrevoir ce qu''elle a appris sur la condition humaine : parfois la vérité inattendue des clichés, mais parfois aussi des vérités inédites, sublimes, ineffables. Il parle aussi de la routine, de la fatigue, de la lourdeur, de la confusion - et des restrictions, réelles, de la liberté. Mais ce livre parle surtout de la joie. Beaucoup de personnes, écrit Anne Enright, se sentent - " gênées par la joie. Exclues. Jalouses "."

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.