Edna O'Brien

Le nouveau roman d'Edna O'Brien laisse pantois. S'inspirant de l'histoire des lycéennes enlevées par Boko Haram en 2014, l'auteure irlandaise...

It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend, Baba, are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings....

Girl, Edna O’Brien’s hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness....

When a wanted war criminal masquerading as a healer settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall....

Caithleen and Baba, first encountered in The Country Girls, are now living in Dublin, where they discuss men, drink gin, and try to look fast....

Set in a Spanish seaside enclave this is a passionate account of lost love and the return to loving, where currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fiery instinct for survival....

In the Forest, set in the west of Ireland, is the story of a young man who shoots dead three people....

Josie, the ailing, elderly inhabitant of an Irish country mansion, dwells in the shadowy world of remembered pain and loneliness....

Kate and Baba are in London, playing out the tragicomedy of their married lives to its surprisingly level-headed conclusion....

Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'....

Everything about Lord George Gordon Byron was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in a child's magic and malices....