{"product_id":"girl-edna-obrien","title":"Girl (Edna O'Brien)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe final novel by the legendary Irish icon Edna O'Brien, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Country Girls.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna.' \u003cb\u003eAnne Enright\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e'Girl \u003c\/i\u003ebroke me in two: a hard and beautiful miracle.' \u003cb\u003eEimear McBride\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An extraordinary act of imagination.' \u003cb\u003eJ.M. Coetzee   \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Glittering energy . . . Exemplary.' \u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI was a girl once, but not any more . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Astonishing.' \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Raw and transfixing.' \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A masterpiece.' \u003ci\u003eIrish Independent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mesmerising.' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Devastating and moving.' \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020; l\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eonglisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction; s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction; s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEdna O'Brien wrote more than twenty celebrated works of fiction, including her classic \u003ci\u003eThe Country Girls \u003c\/i\u003etrilogy, as well as plays and four works of non-fiction, which have been translated into over thirty languages. Her final novel \u003ci\u003eGirl\u003c\/i\u003e was awarded the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year in 2020. She was the recipient of many honours, including the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, the PEN\/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature, and the David Cohen Prize for Literature, as well as being appointed an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2017. In 2021, O'Brien was also named Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Born and raised in the west of Ireland, she lived in London for many years before her death in July 2024.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 240 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65806816051549,"sku":"K082939347","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8293934700001A.jpg?v=1788476373","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/girl-edna-obrien","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}