Girl

di Edna O'Brien (Autore)

Faber & Faber, 2020

The final novel by the legendary Irish icon Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls. 'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna.' Anne Enright 'Girl broke me in two: a hard and beautiful miracle.' Eimear McBride 'An extraordinary act of imagination.' J.M. Coetzee 'Glittering energy . . . Exemplary.' Colm Tóibín I was a girl once, but not any more . . . A young Nigerian woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, ruled by Boko Haram, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial? 'Astonishing.' New Statesman 'Raw and transfixing.' Observer 'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent 'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times 'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph *Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020; longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction; shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction; shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020*

• Autore: Edna O'Brien
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 240 p.
• Dimensioni: 199 x 130 mm
• Peso: 197 gr.
• EAN: 9780571341184

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