The Green Road (E-Book, EPUB)
eBook - Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016
Verlag:
ISBN/EAN: 9781473522916
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 320 S., 0.95 MB
Erschienen am
07.05.2015
Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize Winner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015 Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published two collection of stories, collected asYesterdays Weather, one book of non-fiction,Making Babies, and five novels, includingThe Gathering, which was the Irish Novel of the Year, and won the Irish Fiction Award and the 2007 Man Booker Prize, andThe Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. She is the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction.
A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland"s Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner.
