The gathering

R$ 115,90

Sinopse

A dazzling writer of international stature, Anne Enright is one of Ireland's most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a return to an intimate canvas and moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him--something that happened in their grandmother's house in the winter of 1968. As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. The Gathering is a family epic, clarified through Anne Enright's unblinking eye. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. As in all of Anne Enright's work, this is a book of draing, wit, and insight, her distinctive intelligence twisting the world a fraction and giving it back to us in a new and unforgettable light.

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Autor: Anne Enright

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ANNE ENRIGHT

Derrotando favoritos como Ian McEwan, Anne Enright (1962, Dublin, Irlanda) arrematou o Man Booker Prize de 2007 com o romance O encontro, um mergulho no passado de uma família disfuncional. Atualmente crítica de literatura do Guardian, teve seus textos publicados nas revistas New Yorker, Granta e London Review of Books. Os recônditos da vida familiar, tema central de suas obras, são explorados em linguagem inventiva. A reunião de contos Yesterday’s weather foi incluída pelo crítico James Wood em sua lista dos dez melhores livros de 2008.