Edna O'Brien

«Edna O’Brien escribe las historias más bellas. Ningún escritor o escritora puede compararse a ella, en ningún lugar» Alice Munro«Edna O’Brien es la escritora de lengua inglesa con más talento de nue

«En él, todo era paradójico: era introvertido y extrovertido, guapo y deforme, serio y gracioso, derrochador y mezquino, y poseía una inteligencia deslumbrante enjaulada en la magia y la malicia de u

«En él, todo era paradójico: era introvertido y extrovertido, guapo y deforme, serio y gracioso, derrochador y mezquino, y poseía una inteligencia deslumbrante enjaulada en la magia y la malicia de u

Edna O'Brien returns to the world of her debut novel, The Country Girls, in an inspired account of a dying mother and her daughter From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her; emigrating to America in the 1920s, a romantic liaison she had there, the destiny that brought her back to Ireland, and her marriage. She also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner, and Dilly's heart-rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her daughter. Eleanora's visit does not prove to be the glad reunion that it might have been and, in her sudden departure, she leaves behind the secret journal of their stormy relationship. The Light of Evening is a novel of dreams and broken dreams but, at its core, is the realisation that the bond between mother and child is unbreakable, stronger even than death

THE COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY: THE COUNTRY GIRLS; THE LONELY GIRL; GIRLS IN THEIR MARRIED BLISS

A PAGAN PLACE is Edna O'Brien's true novel of Ireland.Here she returns to that uniquely wonderful, terrible, peculiar place she once called home and writes not only of a life there--of the child becoming a woman--but of the Irish experience out of which that life arises--perhaps more pointedly than in any of her other works. This is the Ireland of country villages and barley fields, of druids in the woods, of unknown babies in the womb, of mischievous girls and Tans with guns.Ireland has marked Edna O'Brien's life and work with unmistakable color and depth, and here she recreates her homeland with a singular grace and intensity.

BYRON IN LOVE - the nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron's life.Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal.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. He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator.Edna O'Brien's exemplary biography focuses upon the diverse and colourful women in Byron's life.

With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity.In "Send My Roots Rain," Miss Gilhooley, a librarian, waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel-expecting to meet a celebrated poet while reflecting on the great love who disappointed her. The Irish workers of "The Shovel Kings" have pipe dreams of becoming millionaires in London, but long for their quickly changing homeland-exiles in both places. "Green Georgette" is a searing anatomy of class, through the eyes of a little girl; "Old Wounds" illuminates the importance of family and memory in old age. In language that is always bold and vital, Edna O'Brien pays tribute to the universal forces that rule our lives.

In una grande casa isolata, immersa nella campagna irlandese, vive Josie, un'anziana signora che ha alle spalle un matrimonio infelice con un ubriacone violento. Adesso che e vecchia e malata si trova a dover affrontare di nuovo la solitudine con un uomo brutale. Si tratta di McGreevy, soprannominato "La bestia", un membro dell'Ira ricercato dalla polizia e dall'esercito, che le piomba in casa all'improvviso in cerca di rifugio. Tra le pareti al contempo protettive e opprimenti della casa si instaura ben presto un legame fra i due diversissimi personaggi.

Lord Byron, medía un metro setenta y cinco, tenía una malformación en el pie derecho, el pelo castaño, una palidez asombrosa, sienesá deá alabastro,á dientesá comoá perlas,á ojos grises ribeteados por pestañas oscuras y un encanto al que ni mujeres ni hombresa podiana resistirse.a Ena el todo era paradojico: era introvertido y extrovertido, guapo y deforme, serio y gracioso, derrochador y, a veces, mezquino, y poseia una inteligencia feroz pero enjaulada en la magia y la malicia de un niño.Ademas,a era un gran poeta, aunque, como el mismo nos recuerda, la poesia es un talento diferente y tiene poco que ver con la vida individual de su creador.Poetaa errante,a genioa amoral,a ala margena dea lasa convencionesa sociales, Lord Byron simboliza la union indisoluble entre existencia y creacion. Su tragico final vino a culminar una vida plena de heroismo, exceso y rebeldia.Ednaa O’Briana esa laa autora de esta brillante biografia de un gran poeta cuya trayectoria vital y creativa lo convierten en maximo representante de la sensibilidad romantica.Nacidaa ena Tomgraney,a Irlanda, Edna O’Brian (1930) es autora de novelas y cuentos cuya accion transcurre generalmente en su pais natal. Escritora polifacetica y prolifica, cultiva tambien otros generos —poesia, b

An evocative play about Virginia Woolf's life and relationships with her husband, Leonard, and her lover, Vita Sackville-West.

COUNTRY GIRLS

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

Collected here together for the first time in one beautiful volume are the stories of an expert practitioner of the shorter form. Spanning five decades of writing, The Love Object takes the most memorable and successful stories from collections like A Scandalous Woman and Saints and Sinners; stories such as 'Shovel Kings', 'Irish Revel', 'Lantern Slides' and 'Paradise' that have bewitched generation after generation.Referred to in the New York Review of Books by Harold Bloom as 'the short story master', Edna O'Brien's stories are a cumulative portrait of a nation, seen from within and without. Here you will find stories about families, feuds, love and land; enchantment, disenchantment, and throughout, the manifold bonds of love. Here are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; and always the shimmering, potent prose.

«Una vegada vaig ser una nena, però ja no ho soc.» Així comença La noia, el corprenedor retrat d?Edna O?Brien d?una de les noies segrestades per Boko Haram. Situada en els camps més interiors del