Edna O'Brien

It is the early 1960s in a country village in Ireland. Caithleen Brady and her attractive friend, Baba, are on the verge of womanhood and dreaming of spreading their wings....

Caithleen and Baba, first encountered in The Country Girls, are now living in Dublin, where they discuss men, drink gin, and try to look fast....

Collected here for the first time are stories spanning five decades of writing by the "short story master" (Harold Bloom). As John Banville writes in his introduction to The Love Object, Edna O'Brien "is, simply, one of the finest writers of our time." The thirty-one stories collected in this...

"Country Girl is Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life."-National Public Radio When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was...

A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila...

Edna O’Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who – whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York – remind us of our own humanity....

Kate and Baba are in London, playing out the tragicomedy of their married lives to its surprisingly level-headed conclusion....

Selected Shorts: Falling in Love presents a collection of stirring tales of love and longing....

Set in a Spanish seaside enclave this is a passionate account of lost love and the return to loving, where currents of regret and loneliness clash with a fiery instinct for survival....

From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her....

Estos extraordinarios relatos de Edna O'Brien, publicados por primera vez en castellano en una edición a cargo de Marta Orriols, son una muestra brillante de la capacidad de su autora para manejar tramas y para manipular cada palabra con el detalle de una artesana y la delicadeza de una amante....

One of The New York Times Book Review's 2019 Notable Books of the Year An NYPL Book for Reading and Sharing for 2019 One of The Guardian's (UK) 2019 Best Books of the Year One of Esquire Magazine's 2019 Best Books of the Year "Narrator Sheila Atim sets a sensitive yet emphatic tone for this...

Le nouveau roman d'Edna O'Brien laisse pantois. S'inspirant de l'histoire des lycéennes enlevées par Boko Haram en 2014, l'auteure irlandaise...

La última novela de la autora de Las chicas de campo, ganadora del premio Especial Femina Extranjero 2019 y el premio David Cohen 2019 por el conjunto de su obra: su novela más ambiciosa, comprometida y estremecedora....

This is the story of a woman's life, her marriage and the bonds that tie her to her two boys....

Wie ihre Mitschülerinnen wurde Maryam von Boko-Haram-Kämpfern aus ihrer nigerianischen Schule an einen ihnen unbekannten Ort entführt...

A celebration of adult literature and reading....