Edna O'Brien

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

Edna O'Brien was born in 1930. Her brilliant debut novel, The Country Girls, was banned in her native Ireland upon its publication in 1960. Since then she has gone on to produce some of the finest writing of the 20th century....

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

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....

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...

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....

Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence....

James and Nora is a lyrical portrait of the relationship between the greatest Irish writer of the 20th century, James Joyce, and Nora Barnacle, whom he married and was devoted to. It is a passionate, short and good-humoured account of their marriage....

Now a much-loved modern classic, The Country Girls Trilogy was fiercely controversial when first published in the 1960s....

La última novela de la autora de Las chicas de campo, ganadora del premio Especial Femina Extranjero 2019 y el premio David Cohen 2019 por el conjunto de su obra: su novela más ambiciosa, comprometida y estremecedora....

Estos extraordinarios relatos de Edna O'Brien, publicados por primera vez en castellano en una edición a cargo de Marta Orriols, son una muestra brillante de la capacidad de su autora para manejar tramas y para manipular cada palabra con el detalle de una artesana y la delicadeza de una amante....

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

This is the story of a woman's life, her marriage and the bonds that tie her to her two boys....

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....

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

Selected Shorts: Falling in Love presents a collection of stirring tales of love and longing....

Wie ihre Mitschülerinnen wurde Maryam von Boko-Haram-Kämpfern aus ihrer nigerianischen Schule an einen ihnen unbekannten Ort entführt...

A celebration of adult literature and reading....

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....