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I was a girl once, but not any more . . . A young woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial?

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».

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

Now a much-loved modern classic, The Country Girls Trilogy was fiercely controversial when first published in the 1960s. Banned by the Irish censors and burned by the Church, the books nonetheless achieved widespread acclaim and international success, and launched Edna O’Brien’s literary career.

These three BBC radio adaptations follow the lives and loves of best friends Kate and Baba, two teenage girls growing up in repressive rural Ireland in the years before the sexual revolution. The Country Girls sees the duo leaving their small country village for convent school – but the bright lights of Dublin beckon, promising glamour, adventure and romance. In The Lonely Girl, dreamy Kate longs for love, while worldly-wise Baba makes the most of the opportunities the big city offers. Girls in Their Married Bliss finds the two friends living across the sea in London, where both have found husbands – but will marriage and motherhood bring happiness or heartbreak?

Funny, moving and painfully honest, these evocative dramas are a passionate affirmation of female friendship and desire, and a vivid portrait of a country struggling to throw off the shackles of prudishness, misogyny and religious conservatism. Charlie Murphy (Peaky Blinders, Happy Valley) stars as Kate, with Aoibhinn McGinnity (Resistance, Nightflyers) as Baba.

Edna O'Brien is the much acclaimed author of The Country Girls Trilogy. She recently won the David Cohen Prize for Literature for having “broken down social and sexual barriers for women in Ireland and beyond and moved mountains both politically and lyrically through her writing”.

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 unforgettable story of one victim’s astonishing survival, and her unflinching faith in the redemption of the human heart.

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

I was a girl once, but not any more. 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 unforgettable story of one victim's astonishing survival, and her unflinching faith in the redemption of the human heart.

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…

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.

The Country Girls and its sequels, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss, changed the temperature of Irish literature in the 1960s and inspired generation after generation of readers and writers.
The passion, artistry and courage of Edna O'Brien's vision in these three novels continue to resonate into the twenty-first century - and they are collected here with a new introduction from Eimear McBride.

When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in a fatal attraction that leads to unimaginable consequences.

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 shattered. While en route to pay tribute at Yeats's grave, Dr. Vlad is arrested and revealed to be a notorious war criminal and mass murderer. The Cloonoila community is devastated by this revelation, and no one more than Fidelma, who is made to pay for her deviance and desire. In disgrace and utterly alone, she embarks on a journey that will bring both profound hardship and, ultimately, the prospect of redemption.

Moving from Ireland to London and then to The Hague, THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS is Edna O'Brien's first novel in ten years -- a vivid and unflinching exploration of humanity's capacity for evil and artifice as well as the bravest kind of love.

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.

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 escándalo entre parientes y amigos católicos cuando se enamore de Eugene, un director de cine protestante que acaba de separarse de su mujer y vive en los Montes Wicklow.

Durante un tiempo, Kate verá sus sueños cumplidos: alcanzará un sofisticado refugio idílico y literario, cosmopolita a pesar de encontrarse en medio del campo. Pero cuando su padre se entere de esa relación, hará todo lo posible por impedirla y desatará la ira de toda una peculiar comunidad —whisky mediante— contra ella y su enamorado.

Humor y amor, como en toda rima fácil, al mismo tiempo que —otra rima— dolor, el dolor de vivir cuando la alegría de la juventud se vuelve oscura, se convierte en su reverso. Es esta novela un bellísimo ejemplo de iniciación a la vida y a la feminidad. Nadie como Edna O’Brien ha escrito con tanta intensidad sobre la pasión y el valor, las tristezas y alegrías —y también la vulnerabilidad— de la juventud: sus grandes planes y sus indefinidos anhelos.

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 siguen pareciendo muy vivos; y entrañables, como en toda vida que merezca la pena rememorar.

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 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.

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.

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; she also retraces Eleanora’s precipitate marriage to a foreigner, which alienated mother and daughter, and Dilly’s heart rending letters sent over the years in a determination to reclaim her daughter. But Eleanora’s visit does not prove to be the glad reunion Dilly prayed for. And in her hasty departure, Eleanora leaves behind a secret journal of their stormy relationship–a revelation that brings the novel to a shocking close.