The Green Road

The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, Rosaleen announces that shes selling the family home and dividing the proceeds, and her adult children return for one last Christmas. From the Booker Prize winning author of THE GATHERING comes a novel of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion.

Informationen zum Autor Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather , one book of non-fiction, Making Babies , and seven novels, including The Gathering , which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz , which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road , which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. Klappentext The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin! New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult! wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas! with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased! their personal history bought and sold. Anne Enright is addicted to the truth of things. Sentence by sentence! there are few writers alive who can invest the language with such torque and gleam! such wit and longing - who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud! who can show us the million splinters of her characters' lives then pull them back up together again! into a perfect glass. Zusammenfassung 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 their home.

Préface
A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner.

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award
Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize

Auteur

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction.

Texte du rabat

The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.

Anne Enright is addicted to the truth of things. Sentence by sentence, there are few writers alive who can invest the language with such torque and gleam, such wit and longing - who can write dialogue that speaks itself aloud, who can show us the million splinters of her characters' lives then pull them back up together again, into a perfect glass.

Résumé
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 their home.