Edna O'Brien

The Little Red Chairs (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
A Sunday Times, Observer, Financial Times and Sunday Express Book of the Year

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in a fatal attraction that leads to unimaginable consequences.

The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.
This ebook features the first chapter of Edna O'Brien's stunning new novel, Girl, published by Faber in September 2019 and available to pre-order now.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571316304
• Artikelnr.: 43977615

Autorenporträt

Edna O'Brien wrote more than twenty celebrated novels, including her classic The Country Girls Trilogy, as well as multiple plays and works of non-fiction, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Her final novel was the acclaimed Girl, which won the Kerry Group Prize for Fiction in 2020. She was the recipient of many accolades, 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 2018, O'Brien was appointed an honorary Dame of the Order of the British Empire, and in 2021, she was also awarded the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she lived in London for many years before her death on 27 July 2024.

Rezensionen

The great Edna O'Brien has written her masterpiece. Philip Roth