Лучшие книги Эдны О'Брайен

Irlanda, años 50. Lejos de la capital, Dublín, y en medio de un verde paisaje, bellísimo pero exigente, la joven y aplicada Caithleen ha crecido llena de encanto gracias a la sabiduría y humildad de su madre; una madre obligada, por las duras condiciones del campo, a ser fuerte en cada momento, a sobreponerse a toda desgracia. Pero algo va a suceder que transformará la vida de Caithleen. Y en esa nueva vida, la de la única hija de una familia venida a menos, estará acompañada por su amiga de la infancia Baba, por la sofisticada madre de ésta, por el peculiar Hickey… y por una docena de personajes soberbiamente retratados que hoy día nos…

Это книга о детстве ирландской девочки — во многом о детстве самой писательницы, живущей в Лондоне, но постоянно возвращающейся — и не только памятью, в книгах - на свою родину.

Caithleen (luego Kate) y Baba, dos amigas irlandesas —encantadoras unas veces, contradictorias otras—, se han instalado, tras una adolescencia de paisajes rurales e internados, en una excéntrica pensión de Dublín. Bajo las luces de la gran ciudad, sus vidas giran y se agitan en torno al tumulto y la confusión de las nuevas amistades, las madrugadas fuera de casa, las aventuras y desventuras, y los amoríos insignificantes. Baba busca diversiones despreocupadas, amores de ocasión, mientras que Kate, tan profunda, se empeña en hablar de los libros que lee con sus nuevos conocidos. Aunque, curiosamente, será esta última quien desate el…

Героини романов популярной писательницы - обычные ирландские девчонки, школьницы старших классов. Неожиданно настает пора взросления, и на них обрушиваются новые, неведомые доселе чувства - любви, ревности, их тянет в загадочный мир взрослых. С сожалением расстаются они с детством - впереди у них нелегкая жизнь. Кто-то из них пойдет в услужение, кто-то эмигрирует из нищей полуголодной страны в поисках счастья, которое бродит совсем рядом...

Читатель этой интереснейшей книги получает возможность усомниться в справедливости известной фразы, вложенной А.Пушкиным в уста Моцарта: "Гений и злодейство - две вещи несовместные". Мы увидим гениального поэта, самоотверженного борца за свободу Италии и Греции - и самовлюбленного эгоиста, растлевающего юношей, соблазняющего единокровную сестру и пренебрегающего собственной дочерью. И все это - один человек, великий английский поэт Джордж Гордон Байрон.

Ирландские народные сказки – настоящая сокровищница волшебных историй, от которых захватывает дух. Они населены кровожадными драконами, свирепыми великанами, прекрасными принцессами и храбрыми принцами. Эта книга – сборник экзотических мифов, мастерски пересказанных современной писательницей Эдной О’Брайен и украшенных великолепными иллюстрациями художника Майкла Формана.

In the Forest returns to the countryside of western Ireland, the vivid backdrop of Edna O'Brien's best-selling Wild Decembers. Here O'Brien unravels a classic confrontation of evil and innocence centering on the young, troubled Michael O'Kane, christened by his neighbors "the Kindershrek," someone of whom small children are afraid. O'Kane loses his mother as a boy and by age ten is incarcerated in a juvenile detention center, an experience that leaves him scarred from abuse and worse, with the killing instinct buried within. A story based on actual events, In the Forest proceeds in a rush of hair-raising episodes and asks what will become…

Girl , Edna O'Brien's hotly anticipated new novel, envisages the lives of the Boko Haram girls in a masterpiece of violence and tenderness. I was a girl once, but not anymore. So begins Girl, Edna O'Brien's harrowing portrayal of the young women abducted by Boko Haram. Set in the deep countryside of northeast Nigeria, this is a brutal story of incarceration, horror, and hunger; a hair-raising escape into the manifold terrors of the forest; and a descent into the labyrinthine bureaucracy and hostility awaiting a victim who returns home with a child blighted by enemy blood. From one of the century's greatest living authors, Girl is an…

Separated from her husband, Ellen finds herself living alone in a city she dislikes - a place that denies her past and offers no hope for her future. Determined to change her life, she decides to go south in search of sun and companionship.

The third book of Edna O'Brien's acclaimed Country Girls trilogy Girls in Their Married Bliss continues the tale of Kate and Baba, two ambitious Irish country girls in search of life. Romantic Kate seeks love, while pragmatic Baba will take whatever she can get. Together they set out to conquer Dublin and the world. Under the big city's bright lights, they spin their lives into a whirl of comic and touching misadventures, wild flirtations, and reckless passions. But love changes everything. And as their lives take unexpected and separate turns, Baba and Kate must ultimately learn to go it alone

A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal, from one of the greatest storytellers of our time One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. Broodingly handsome, worldly, and charismatic, Dr. Vladimir Dragan is a poet, a self-proclaimed holistic healer, and a welcome disruption to the monotony of village life. Before long, the beautiful black-haired Fidelma McBride falls under his spell and, defying the shackles of wedlock and convention, turns to him to cure her of her deepest pains. Then, one morning, the illusion is abruptly…

Love and tragedy converge in a seaside town in The High Road, a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of Girl and “one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s Weekend Edition)

This richly peopled, compellingly readable novel explores the many lives of women―as mystic, mother, daughter, and lover. There is Iris, with her “winsome wonsome” ways, no longer young; there is Charlotte, a troubled debutante who has fled from society; and there is the narrator, Anna, who feels that her emotional life has folded until she meets a young Spanish girl named Catalina.

Set in a seaside enclave on the Mediterranean coast, The High Road 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.

Irlanda siempre ha sido mujer, útero, cueva, vaca, Rosaleen, marrana, novia, ramera...

La multipremiada autora de Las chicas de campo entreteje su autobiografía #su infancia en el condado de Clare, los días en la escuela de monjas, su primer beso o su huida a Inglaterra# con la esencia de Irlanda, una tierra de mitos, poesía, supersticiones,

costumbres ancestrales, sabiduría popular y extrema belleza. Madre Irlanda es, según The Guardian, «Edna O´Brien en su máximo esplendor. Un relato evocador y elegante de un entorno natural y de quienes lo habitan, lleno de audacia e ingenio».

Edna O'Brien's beloved classics plunge us into the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland (with a new foreword by Eimear McBride).

'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna O'Brien ... Beautiful.' Anne Enright

'Novels of heart-breaking empathy, rigorous honesty and peerless beauty.' Eimear McBride

'Brilliant and brave.' Ann Patchett

'A treasure.' New York Times

ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'

Caithleen 'Kate' Brady and Bridget 'Baba' Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin - and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to fight the expectations forced upon 'girls' of every era to become brave new women.

Edna O'Brien's debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. Banned by the authorities as 'indecent' and burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers to this day.

'Buoyantly youthful ... With all the freshness in the world.' Sunday Times

'An excellent and highly unusual blend of bawdiness and innocence.' Evening Standard

'O'Brien simply offers her characters and they come to us living.' V.S. Naipaul

'A natural writer ... [such] unphoney charm and unlaborious originality.' Kingsley Amis

'One of the greatest Irish writers, of this or any era.' Sunday Independent

'One of our bravest and best novelists' Irish Times

'A literary great.' Times

New edition of a short essay on James Joyce and Nora Barnacle, first published in a limited edition in 1981.

This selection of ten short stories about women by modern writers (James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, Roald Dahl, James Thurber, Edna O’Brien, Anne Cassidy, Malachi Whitaker and Janet Frame) from different English-speaking countries – England, Ireland, America and New Zealand – explores such themes as love’s dilemma, loneliness, crime, myths and nostalgia.
Dictionary work, the role of the narrator, setting, story and plots, speech modes and characterisation are all featured in the analysis sections of each story.

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; a young Irish girl and her mother are thrilled to be invited to visit the glamorous Coughlan's but find - for all the promise of their green gorgette, silver shoes and fancy dinner parties - they leave disappointed; an Irishman in north London retraces his life as a young lad with his mates digging the streets and dreaming of the apocryphal gold, an outsider both in Ireland and England, yet he carries the lodestar of his native land.


A collection characterised by all of Edna O'Brien's trademark lyricism, powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking grasp of people and their desires and contradictions.

"The Light of Evening" is a story of attachments, the attachment to land and especially the attachment between mother and daughter, who yearn for closeness but are also estranged. From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit