Girl

ISBN-13: 9780571341184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Edna O'Brien

Opis

The new novel by the legendary Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls.

Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political FictionA Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the YearI was a girl once, but not any more . . .A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness.As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial?'Astonishing.' New Statesman'Raw and transfixing.' Observer'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' Mail on Sunday'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph

Recenzje

An absolutely extraordinary, shattering novel. Simon Schama

O autorze

Edna O'Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the American National Arts Gold Medal, the Frank O'Connor Prize, the PEN/Nabokov Award For Achievement in International Literature, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature. In 2021, Edna O'Brien was awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She is currently writing a play, Joyce's Women, for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, to mark the centenary of the publication of Ulysses. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she has lived in London for many years.