The little red chairs

R$ 223,90

Sinopse

A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal, from one of the greatest storytellers of our timeOne 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.

Participantes

Autor: Edna O'Brien

Autor

EDNA O'BRIEN

Country girls (1960), livro de estreia de Edna O’Brien (1930, Tuamgraney, Irlanda), foi banido de seu país pela naturalidade com que descreve a vida sexual das personagens. Ao mudar-se para Londres, retratou a repressora cidade natal em A pagan place, de 1970. Em mais de vinte romances, os dilemas amorosos de Country girls abriram espaço para os conflitos políticos e sociais da Irlanda, caso de Dezembros selvagens (1999), livro com o qual Edna O’Brien foi comparada a Faulkner pelo escritor Philip Roth. Ela também escreveu diversas coletâneas de contos, muitos deles publicados na New Yorker, peças teatrais – uma delas sobre Virginia Woolf –, além de uma biografia de James Joyce. O romance A luz da noite (2006) será publicado no Brasil neste ano.