Eimear McBride

Una historia de amor tan íntima como violenta, capaz de arrasarlo todo a su paso. Una voz poderosa de la literatura británica actual.Eily tiene dieciocho años y acaba de llegar a Londres para es

Eimear McBride is that old fashioned thing, a genius. Anne EnrightA nameless woman enters a non-descript hotel room shes been in once before, many years ago.

Une fille est une chose à demi nous plonge dans les replis intimes de l’existence d’une fille en devenir. La voix âpre et puissante de sa narratrice, grandie au sein d’une famille brisée, dans une

This book is from the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years. An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama and falls violently in love with an older actor. This older man has a disturbing past that the young girl is

A woman enters an Avignon hotel room. She's been here once before - but while the room hasn't changed, she is a different person now.Forever caught between check-in and check-out, she will go on to occupy other hotel rooms, from Prague to Oslo, Auckland to Austin, each as anonymous as the last. There, amid the open suitcases, the matchbooks, cigarettes, keys and room-service wine, she will negotiate with memory, with the men she sometimes meets, and with what it might mean to return home.

Escrita en una prosa tan febril y palpitante como devastadora y erótica. Una novela deslumbrante sobre los pensamientos, el despertar sexual y la incomodidad de una chica irlandesa que se precipita

Eily tiene dieciocho años y acaba de llegar a Londres para estudiar arte dramático. Desde una fría habitación alquilada, emplea su tiempo en clases por el día y fiestas por la noche, entre pintas de cervezas, cigarrillos, montañas de libros y algunas relaciones esporadicas con sus compañeros. Hasta que conoce a Stephen, un actor que la dobla en edad, atractivo y controlador, que carga con sus propios demonios internos. Ambos pasaran de la amistad al sexo casual y de ahi a una relacion cuya intensidad amenaza con arrasarlo todo a su paso.

Eimear McBride's debut tells, with astonishing insight and in brutal detail, the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. Not so much a stream of consciousness, as an unconscious railing against a life that makes little sense, and a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist, to read A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world first-hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation. Touching on everything from family violence to sexuality and the personal struggle to remain intact in times of intense trauma, McBride writes with singular intensity, acute sensitivity and mordant wit. A Girl is a Half-formed Thing is moving, funny - and alarming.

WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEKERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEEimear McBride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother, and the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour. It is a shocking and intimate insight into the thoughts, feelings and chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable and isolated protagonist. To read A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator's head, experiencing her world at first hand. This isn't always comfortable - but it is always a revelation.