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Prózy Anne Enrightové jsou pověstné ponurostí a nesmiřitelností, s níž prezentuje současné Irsko. Román se odehrává během několika týdnů života čtyřicátnice Veroniky, jež se musí vypořádat s nepříjemným úkolem – přivézt z Anglie do Irska mrtvé tělo bratra Liama, alkoholika, který spáchal sebevraždu na Brightonské pláži. Pro Veroniku není lehké vyrovnat se se smrtí milovaného bratra, mnohem hůře však zvládá vzpomínky, které jeho dobrovolný odchod ze světa vyvolal. Vzpomínky na dětství, kdy žila spolu s jedenácti sourozenci. Pro většinu dětí bývá dětství jakýmsi záchytným bodem, místem, ke kterému se mohou v myšlenkách vracet. Ne tak v případě Veroniky a jejích sourozenců. Pro ně je dětství velkou noční můrou; nešlo jen o předvídatelnou chudobu a skromné podmínky, ale především o nezájem, s nímž k nim matka přistupovala. Čekali bychom, že právě tíživá situace rodinu semkne, ale v případě Hegartyových to mělo přesně opačný efekt: ničeho se nedostávalo, ani materiálního zabezpečení, ani lásky. Nelze se pak divit, že nikdo ze sourozenců není bez následků – pijou, jsou nespokojeni v soukromém i pracovním životě, nevěří v boha, závidí si. Veronika si bohužel vybavuje i situace, kdy rodinný přítel sexuálně zneužíval jejího bratra. Její úsilí pochopit důvody bratrovy sebevraždy je nakonec korunováno úspěchem, jen díky němu se jí daří vyrovnat se s vlastní minulostí. Román získal v roce 2007 prestižní Man Bookerovu cenu.

In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women.

in Qian's, castration) over respectable death in order to finish a book, he contemplates literature, manners, morals, people and, especially, the English language in all its glories and eccentricities - while recording his battle against cancer and his hospital experiences. schovat popis

Man Booker Prize winner Enright presents a candid memoir about her journey into motherhood. With a refreshing and straightforward approach, she shares her experiences during childbirth and the first two years of her children's lives, blending wit with deep affection.

'Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original' Angela CarterThe characters in Anne Enright's fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society. Full of desire, but out of kilter, their response to a dislocated reality is mutinous, wild, unforgettable.

The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story.

Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy. An antidote to the high-minded, polemical 'How-to' baby manuals, Making Babies also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood.

Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been.A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author'A magnificent novel'SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE'Might just be her best yet'LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES'Gem-packed language... A must-read'MARGARET ATWOOD, author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE (via Twitter)Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions.This is a meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A multigenerational novel that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent.'One of our greatest living novelists'THE TIMES

Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions. This is a meditation on love- spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A multigenerational novel that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. ***A THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*** ***ONE OF THE BBC'S '25 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023'*** 'One of our greatest living novelists' THE TIMES 'Might just be her best yet' LOUISE KENNEDY, author of Trespasses 'Gem-packed language... A must-read' MARGARET ATWOOD (via Twitter)

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.