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Informationen zum Autor Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather , one book of non-fiction, Making Babies , and eight novels, including The Gathering , which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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 children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and their home....
