Het werk van Anne Enright duikt in de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en familielijken, vaak gesitueerd in een Iers landschap. Haar schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door een indringend inzicht in de psychologie van personages en een verkenning van verborgen emoties. Door haar literaire inspanningen probeert ze waarheden over ervaring en herinnering te ontdekken. Haar romans worden geprezen om hun stilistische verfijning en diepgang.
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.
In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women.
in Qian's, castration) over respectable death in order to finish a book, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and, especially, the English language in all its glories and eccentricities - while recording his battle against cancer and his hospital experiences. schovat popis
Man Booker Prize winner Enright presents a candid memoir about her journey into motherhood. With a refreshing and straightforward approach, she shares her experiences during childbirth and the first two years of her children's lives, blending wit with deep affection.
'Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original' Angela CarterThe characters in Anne Enright's fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society. Full of desire, but out of kilter, their response to a dislocated reality is mutinous, wild, unforgettable.
The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story.
A dark romantic fantasy debut with a villainous, bloodthirsty heroine who finds herself plunged into the dangerous world of power, politics and murder in the court of the Eternal king.[Bokinfo].
Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. An antidote to the high-minded, polemical 'How-to' baby manuals, Making Babies also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood.
Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been.A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author'A magnificent novel'SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE'Might just be her best yet'LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES'Gem-packed language... A must-read'MARGARET ATWOOD, author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE (via Twitter)Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions.This is a meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A multigenerational novel that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent.'One of our greatest living novelists'THE TIMES
Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions. This is a meditation on love- spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A multigenerational novel that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. ***A THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*** ***ONE OF THE BBC'S '25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023'*** 'One of our greatest living novelists' THE TIMES 'Might just be her best yet' LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses 'Gem-packed language... A must-read' MARGARET ATWOOD (via Twitter)
