Forgotten Waltz

AvAnne Enright

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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A powerful, moving book of secrets, longing and loss, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering.If it hadn't been for the child then none of this might have happened.She saw me kissing her father.She saw her father kissing me.The fact that a child got mixed up in it all made us feel that it mattered, that there was no going back.**Shortlisted for The Orange Prize for Fiction**'Absolute genius' BBC Radio 4

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-03-29
Mått:129 x 197 x 16 mm
Vikt:194 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Vintage Publishing
ISBN:9780099539780
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 2012

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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.

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A love story for our times... In a single sentence [Enright] conjures up that violent pendulum swing of emotion that can blow whole worlds apart... This is the great pleasure of reading Enright: her sheer virtuoso control of language, those compact sentences, with their occasional flares of lyrical beauty and emotional force