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Edna O. Brien

    Edna O. Brien
    Mother Ireland
    Casualties of Peace
    James Joyce
    Byron in love
    Joyce's Women
    The Love Object
    • 2023

      In einer kalten, dunklen Nacht taucht in Cloonoila an der irischen Westküste ein Fremder auf und bringt Unruhe ins eingeschlafene Dorfleben. »Ein bisschen Romantik« erhoffen sich die einen, »Skandal« wittern die anderen. Denn Dr. Vladimir Dragan, kurz Vuk: »Wolf«, aus Montenegro will sich als Heiler und Sexualtherapeut bei ihnen niederlassen. Priesterliche Bedenken gegen seine Behandlungen zerstreut der Doktor im Nu, einen misstrauischen Polizisten wickelt er um den Finger. Der ganze Ort erliegt nach und nach dem Charisma des mysteriösen Fremden, der martialische Gedichte schreibt, lateinische Verse rezitiert und vor allem bei den Frauen scheinbar Wunder bewirkt. Die schöne, mit einem viel älteren Mann verheiratete Fidelma hat ihn sogar als Vater des Kindes auserwählt, nach dem sie sich so verzweifelt sehnt. Doch Vuk ist wirklich ein Wolf unter Schafen, ein gesuchter Kriegsverbrecher, und Fidelma wird für ihren Pakt mit ihm bitter bezahlen. Ihr Leben nimmt eine dramatische Wendung.

      Die kleinen roten Stühle (Steidl Pocket)
    • 2022

      I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James Joyce.'James Joyce had been my ultimate hero for sixty years, but to paint the canvas of his life was daunting. Therefore I decided to depict him as seen by the key figures in his life - Mother, Wife, Mistress of a fleeting moment, his patron Harriet Weaver and his beloved Daughter Lucia, of whom he said her mind was but a transparent leaf away from his.'Written to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses , Joyce's Women premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2022.

      Joyce's Women
    • 2020

      The Light of Evening

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      2.7(10)Add rating

      "O'Brien brings together the earthy and delicately poetic: she has the sound of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." - NewsweekIn The Light of Evening, Edna O'Brien's twentieth work of fiction, an elderly widow on her deathbed in rural Ireland tells the story of her life'a story of love, family, estrangement, and motherhood.

      The Light of Evening
    • 2020

      James and Nora

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      3.6(29)Add rating

      A portrait of the relationship between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle

      James and Nora
    • 2019

      Girl

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.5(5088)Add rating

      Longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year I was a girl once, but not any more . . . A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial? 'Astonishing.' New Statesman 'Raw and transfixing.' Observer 'Miraculous . . . Extraordinary.' Mail on Sunday 'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent 'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times 'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph

      Girl
    • 2019

      Byron in love

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      The nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron's life.

      Byron in love
    • 2017
    • 2015

      The Little Red Chairs

      • 299 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.5(71)Add rating

      The much-anticipated new novel from the literary world's master of storytelling, Edna O'Brien. A woman discovers that the foreigner she thinks will redeem her life is a notorious war criminal. Vlad, a stranger from Eastern Europe masquerading as a healer, settles in a small Irish village where the locals fall under his spell. One woman, Fidelma McBride, becomes so enamored that she begs him for a child. All that world is shattered when Vlad is arrested, and his identity as a war criminal is revealed. Fidelma, disgraced, flees to England and seeks work among the other migrants displaced by wars and persecution. But it is not until she confronts him-her nemesis-at the tribunal in The Hague, that her physical and emotional journey reaches its breathtaking climax. The Little Red Chairs is a book about love, and the endless search for it. It is also a book about mankind's fascination with evil, and how long, how crooked, is the road towards Home.

      The Little Red Chairs
    • 2011

      A collection in which, a woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophony of the cityscape; and a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find they leave disappointed.

      Saints and Sinners
    • 2004

      One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce.

      James Joyce