Bøger af Edna O'Brien

James Joyces roman Ulysses gælder som et af de absolutte hovedværker i verdenslitteraturen. I år er det 100 år siden romanen udkom. I den anledning udsendes denne fine lille biografi over Joyce i digteren Peter Laugesens oversættelse.James Joyce - der sandsynligvis er den mest indflydelsesrige forfatter idet tyvende århundrede – bliver ved med at inspirere forfattere, læsere og tænkere i dag. Edna O'Brien, selv en af Irlands store forfattere, skriver om mesteren, som kun en landsmand kan. Fra Joyces teenageår over hans rejser til udlandet til udgivelsen af Ulysses - det skandaløse mesterværk, der oprindeligt blev forbudt i USA, men senere hyldet som en af de mest geniale romaner gennem tiderne - følger O'Brien buen i Joyces bemærkelsesværdige liv. Hendes biografi er en hyldest, på én gang kærlig og hård, til en af vores mest betydningsfulde litterære forfædre.

The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.'Edna O'Brien writes the most beautiful, aching stories of any writer, anywhere.' Alice MunroSpanning five decades of writing, and winning the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, The Love Object collects the most luminous stories by Edna O'Brien that have bewitched generation after generation. Here you will find tales of families, feuds, enchantment, despair, and the manifold bonds of love. There are stories about the tension between country and city life, the instinct towards escape and nostalgia for home; always crafted in shimmering, unique prose.This ebook features the first chapter of Edna O'Brien's stunning new novel, Girl, published by Faber in September 2019 and available to pre-order now.

As dramatised on BBC Radio 4, Edna O'Brien's iconic trilogy of novels - The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl and Girls in their Married Bliss - depicts the lives and loves of two girls in rural 1950s Ireland. Edna O'Brien's debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s.

One of Ireland's greatest contemporary writers turns her attention to one of the country's greatest novelists: James Joyce - 100th anniversary of the iconic classic ULYSSES. 'A delight from start to finish' SUNDAY TIMES

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

I love fire. Fire is the colour of genius.In this audacious new work, Edna O'Brien gives voice to the women who were central to the life of James Joyce.'James Joyce had been my ultimate hero for sixty years, but to paint the canvas of his life was daunting. Therefore I decided to depict him as seen by the key figures in his life - Mother, Wife, Mistress of a fleeting moment, his patron Harriet Weaver and his beloved Daughter Lucia, of whom he said her mind was but a transparent leaf away from his.'Written to celebrate the centenary of Ulysses, Joyce's Women premiered at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in September 2022.

”Energisk, vidende og kærlig”❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ - PolitikenOversat af digteren Peter Laugesen. James Joyces roman Ulysses gælder som et af de absolutte hovedværker i verdenslitteraturen. I år er det 100 år siden romanen udkom. I den anledning udsendes denne fine lille biografi over Joyce i digteren Peter Laugesens oversættelse. James Joyce - der sandsynligvis er den mest indflydelsesrige forfatter i det tyvende århundrede – bliver ved med at inspirere forfattere, læsere og tænkere i dag. Edna O'Brien, selv en af Irlands store forfattere, skriver om mesteren, som kun en landsmand kan. Fra Joyces teenageår over hans rejser til udlandet til udgivelsen af Ulysses - det skandaløse mesterværk, der oprindeligt blev forbudt i USA, men senere hyldet som en af de mest geniale romaner gennem tiderne - følger O'Brien buen i Joyces bemærkelsesværdige liv. Hendes biografi er en hyldest, på én gang kærlig og nådesløs, til en af vores mest betydningsfulde litterære forfædre.”En virkelig god biografi”⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Kristeligt Dagblad”Lykkes med at skrive om Joyce på en måde, ingen andre har formået” – Information”Livfuldt oversat” – Weekendavisen

Down by the River is a newly reissued novel from Edna O'Brien, the author of Girl-"one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's Weekend Edition).Set in the author's native Ireland, a powerful and passionate novel about a young girl who becomes pregnant by her father-a situation made worse when it becomes fodder for the gossip mill of church, state, and the town square.

A newly reissued novel from the author of Girl, "one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's Weekend Edition)"As her disturbing novel clearly reveals, Edna O'Brien possesses what Henry James called an imagination fordisaster...[Time and Tide] is an anthology of heightened moments...never less than brilliantly expressed." -Joel Conarroe, The New York Times Book ReviewTime and Tide is a fragmented novel detailing the loves and catastrophes-and catastrophic loves-of Nell, an Irish woman trying to make a life for herself in the literary world of London. "A whimsical beauty who has swapped the suffocating narrowness of her native land for the loveless brutality of England" (The Independent), Nell is in flight from bitter, controlling, and small-minded parents, yet risks becoming just such a mother to her own sons. She seeks comfort and acceptance, yet finds death, drugs, and "an orgy of humiliation" (The New York Times Book Review). She seeks companionship, yet finds one after another predatory man: sadists, alcoholics, unscrupulous doctors, and even child molesters. Can Nell extract from the "the vast inhospitality of a creaking world" some measure of beauty and grace? The answer, of course, is yes-but at the price of many illusions.

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction"Superb...[Lantern Slides] continues the quest for origin and explanation that has preoccupied O'Brien...Her stories unearth the primeval feelings buried just below the surface of nostalgia, using memories to illuminate both what is ridiculous and what is heroic about passion." -David Leavitt, The New York Times Book Review"Her stories are brilliantly realized and often very funny...O'Brien is quite simply one of the finest short story writers of our time." -Joyce Carol OatesA newly reissued collection of stories from the author of Girl, "one of the most celebrated writers in the English language" (NPR's Weekend Edition)In twelve stories peopled with deeply etched characters, whom we come to know instantly and intimately, Lantern Slides reveals the wit and passion of a master of the short fiction form. Rich and humorous, full of struggle and boldness, these stories are a singular reflection of Edna O'Brien's artistry.

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.

A newly reissued edition of this haunting, poetic coming-of-age novel from "one of the great writers...in the English-speaking world" (The New York Times)"O'Brien's evocative prose shows the chilling hold that history and the dead clamp on the living." -Paul Gray, Time"O'Brien brings together the earthy and the delicately poetic: she has the soul of Molly Bloom and the skills of Virginia Woolf." -Ray Sawhill, NewsweekIn A Pagan Place, Edna O'Brien returns to Ireland, the uniquely wonderful, terrible, and peculiar place she once called home. After leaving to join a religious community in Belgium, a young woman remembers her childhood on the western coast of Ireland. She reflects on the rituals of rural life, the people she encountered, and the enchanting beauty of the landscape.This is the Ireland of country villages and barley fields, of mischievous girls and druids in the woods. As the impressions of her former home intensify, her mind turns to the shocking event that led to her departure.

A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride This omnibus edition includes the novels The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss. The country girls are Caithleen "Kate" Brady and Bridget "Baba" Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin, they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith, bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong reasons, betraying for the wrong reasons, fighting in their separate ways against the overwhelming wave of expectations forced upon "girls" of every era.The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue charts unflinchingly the pattern of women's lives, from the high spirits of youth to the chill of middle age, from hope to despair, in remarkable prose swinging from blunt and brutal to whimsical and lyrical. It is a saga both painful and hilarious, and remains one of the major accomplishments of Edna O'Brien's extraordinary career.

In these selections from twenty years of her best short fiction, Edna O'Brien's A Fanatic Heart pulls the reader into a woman's experience. Her stories portray a young Irish girl's view of obsessive love and its often wrenching pain, while tales of contemporary life show women who open themselves to sexuality, to disappointment, to madness. Throughout, there is always O'Brien's voice-wondrous, despairing, moving-examining passionate subjects that lay bare the desire and needs that can be hidden in a woman's heart.

"Joyce fans should thank their lucky stars." -The New York Times Arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth century, James Joyce continues to inspire writers, readers, and thinkers today. Now Edna O'Brien, herself one of Ireland's great writers, approaches the master as only a fellow countryman can. From Joyce's adolescence through his travels abroad to the publication of Ulysses-the scandalous masterpiece that was initially banned in the U nited States but later hailed as one of the most brilliant novels of the twentieth century-O'Brien traces the arc of Joyce's remarkable life. Her biography is a tribute, at once affectionate and stern, from a contemporary writer to one of our most significant literary ancestors.

it is only a matter of time before she snaps. Edna O'Brien crafts a quietly horrifying scene of eroticism and insecurity, and makes one woman's near-fatal discomfort stand for society's larger trap.

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.

The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019. Banned in several countries on first publication, Edna O'Brien's August is a Wicked Month is a simmering, sansual tale of a woman rediscovering herself on the French Riviera.

After leaving for a religious community in Belgium, a young woman remembers her childhood in rural Ireland. She reflects on the rituals of village life, the people she encountered, and the enchanting beauty of the landscape. Her mind then turns to the shocking event that led to her departure.

A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYA Sunday Times, Observer, Financial Times and Sunday Express Book of the YearWhen 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.The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019.This ebook features the first chapter of Edna O'Brien's stunning new novel, Girl, published by Faber in September 2019 and available to pre-order now.

Edna O'Brien's wonderful, wild and moving novel shocked the nation on its publication in 1960. Adapted for the stage by the author, The Country Girls, the play, is a highly theatrical and free-flowing telling of this classic coming of age story.