Энн Энрайт – лучшие книги

Новый роман одной из самых интересных британских писательниц Энн Энрайт – о любви и страсти, о заблуждениях и желаниях, о том, как можно тоска по сильным чувствам может обернуться усталостью от жизни. Критики окрестили этот роман современной «Госпожой Бовари», и это сравнение вовсе не чрезмерное, потому что «Забытый вальс» – столь же красивый, умный и философский роман о браке и адюльтере. Энн Энрайт пишет о драме повседневности, об изменчивости связей между людьми, о чужих взглядах, которые заставляют ежиться. Эмоциональный, ироничный и блестяще написанный новый роман лауреата премии «Букер» 2007 года. Сама писательница характеризует…

Личная жизнь легенды ирландской сцены Кэтрин О’Делл тоже была грандиозным театральным представлением, самым преданным зрителем которого стала дочь актрисы Нора. Но и на сцене, и в жизни мать всегда оставалась для нее загадкой.
Спустя годы Нора пишет книгу воспоминаний, в которой пытается понять обожаемую публикой актрису, покорившую театральные подмостки Лондона и Нью-Йорка. Женщину, полностью посвятившую себя искусству и мужчинам. Мать, так никогда и не назвавшую дочери имя ее отца.
Информация об авторе
Энн Энрайт – автор семи романов, трех сборников рассказов и книги нон-фикшн. Получила степень бакалавра английской литературы и философии в Тринити-колледже Дублинского университета. Работа продюсером и режиссером на телевидении. С 1993 года полностью посвятила себя литературному творчеству. Лауреат Букеровской премии (за роман The Gathering, 2007), удостоена Медали Эндрю Карнеги за выдающиеся достижения в литературе (за роман The Forgotten Waltz, 2011). Живет в Дублине.
Отзывы
О славе и ее разрушительной силе, о непростых отношениях знаменитой матери и «обычной» дочери и о том, что главное в этой жизни – понимать друг друга.
New York Times
Энрайт, сама бывшая актриса, тонко чувствует и мастерски описывает пафос и комизм актерской жизни – призрачной, иллюзорной, будто ненастоящей.
Sunday Express
Начисто лишенная сентиментальности, но удивительно позитивная, вдохновляющая история о женских созидательности, смелости, способности любить и жизненной силе.
Time Literary Supplement

Эту книгу современной ирландской писательницы отметили как серьезные критики, так и рецензенты из женских глянцевых журналов. И немудрено - речь в ней о любви. Героиня - наша современница. Ее возлюбленный - ангел. Настоящий, с крыльями. Как соблазнить ангела, черт возьми? Все оказалось гораздо проще и сложнее, чем вы могли бы предположить...

The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968.

The Gathering is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

A darkly glinting novel set on Ireland's Atlantic coast, "The Green Road" is a story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion - a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them. 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.

The 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.

An incandescent novel from one of our greatest living novelists (The Times) about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of women.

Nell McDaragh never knew her grandfather, the famed Irish poet Phil McDaragh. But his love poems seem to speak directly to her. Restless, full of verve and wit, twenty-two-year-old Nell leaves her mother Carmel’s home to find her voice as a writer and live a life of her choosing. Carmel, too, knows the magic of her Daddo’s poetry—and the broken promises within its verses. When Phil abandons the family, Carmel struggles to reconcile “the poet” with the man whose desertion scars Carmel, her sister, and their cancer-ridden mother.

The Wren, the Wren brings to life three generations of women who contend with inheritances—of abandonment and of sustaining love that is “more than a strand of DNA, but a rope thrown from the past, a fat twisted rope, full of blood.” In sharp prose studded with crystalline poetry, Anne Enright masterfully braids a family story of longing, betrayal, and hope.

A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner.
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 own children – forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.

Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the long reaches of the night. Everyone, from parents to the mildly curious, can delight in Enright’s funny, eloquent and unsentimental account of having babies. Selected from the book Making Babies by Anne Enright

Man Booker Prize winner Enright offers a new kind of memoir: an unapologetic look at the very personal experience of becoming a mother. With a refreshing no-nonsense attitude, she opens up about the birth and first two years of her children's lives in a witty, but deeply loving style

When Maria turns twenty, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was twelve years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes: she is the same, only different. Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture. Stepping through the mirror to tell the story of the two women, both haunted by their missing selves, WHAT ARE YOU LIKE? Is an exquisitely written disquisition on families and identity. It is a modern story, full of genetic jokes, of splitting and dislocation, and it is one of the oldest stories there is: a novel about twins. Threading together the lives of two young women, it confirms Anne Enright as not only the most original Irish writer of her generation, but also as one of the finest, funniest, and most affecting.

Anne Enright presents a series of deeply moving stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright's characters are haunted by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out. A woman's one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another's is thwarted by an swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. This collection includes some of Enright's best loved stories as well as her latest works. These are sharp, vivid tales of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers.

The novel opens in Paris, in the midst of the sexual embrace that makes Eliza Lynch the mistress of Francisco Solano López, the third dictator of Paraguay. She is nineteen years old but wise beyond her years-initiated into sex by a Mr. Bennett, a friend of her family's, while still at school, she has had many lovers and even been married, to an abusive Frenchman named Quatrefages from whom she escaped in north Africa to return to Paris. She is currently a society paramour who maintains a respectable façade even while sleeping with a dressmaker in exchange for credit. López is a young comer in Paraguayan politics, the son of the current dictator, who is in Europe on a diplomatic tour and to recruit engineers and others to help on his plan to build the first railway in South America. He goes to Eliza Lynch for French lessons, but history has other plans for them. A few months later, Eliza realizes she is pregnant.

Dublini ontliku eeslinna tänavaid on katmas lumevaip. Gina silmitseb tasapisi tarduvat linna ja mõtiskleb möödaniku üle. Ta meenutab rikutud abielude hinnaga jagatud õndsust, inimesi koos kõigi nende kiiksudega oma elus, ennast koos kõigi oma kiiksudega inimeste seas, tõuse ja mõõnu.