Edna O'Brien – författare

En av den irländska litteraturens stora mästerverk, nu på svenska för första gången på fyrtio år.Kate och Baba växer upp i en strikt religiös miljö på den irländska landsbygden strax efter andra världskriget. Kate är romantiskt lagd, Baba en överlevare. Efter att ha lyckats bli relegerade från klosterskolan de går på, tar de sig till Dublin. Redo för kärleken och friheten i den stora staden, tvingas de konfrontera de förväntningar som påtvingas flickor i varje generation.När Två flickor på Irland kom 1960 väckte den stor skandal. Böckerna förbjöds av myndigheterna och brändes till och med på bål av kyrkan för sitt rättframma sätt att skildra unga flickors sexualitet.

”Hon förändrade den irländska litteraturen genom att skriva in kvinnors upplevelser och inre liv i historien, och hon gjorde det med stil.” Andrew O’Hagan

''Edna O''Brien has always had a gift for writing about affairs of the heart'' Guardian''Her boldly coloured portrait rewrites his life with all the brio and elan for which her novels are renowned'' The Herald ''Hugely enjoyable'' Daily TelegraphBYRON IN LOVE - the nobility, arrogance and sheer theatre of Byron''s life.Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic flaws redeemed by a magnetism and ultimately a heroism that by ending in tragedy raised it and him from the particular to the universal.Everything about Lord George Gordon Byron was a paradox - insider and outsider, beautiful and deformed, serious and facetious, profligate but on occasion miserly, and possessed of a fierce intelligence trapped forever in a child''s magic and malices. He was also a great poet, but as he reminded us, poetry is a distinct faculty and has little to do with the individual life of its creator. Edna O''Brien''s exemplary biography focuses upon the diverse and colourful women in Byron''s life.''O''Brien charts the many loves of the notorious 19th-century poet''s reckless life in immediate and candid prose'' Sunday Telegraph''A beguiling blend of sympathy, humour and, of course, her signature lilting style . . . a delightful, though poignant, account'' Main on Sunday ''There is much to enjoy in this idiosyncratic and highly readable account of the poet whose writing enthralled and whose actions appalled in equal measure'' Independent

A treasure of world literature back in print, featuring a new introduction by Eimear McBride This omnibus edition includes the novels The Country Girls, The Lonely Girl, and Girls in Their Married Bliss. The country girls are Caithleen “Kate” Brady and Bridget “Baba” Brennan, and their story begins in the repressive atmosphere of a small village in the west of Ireland in the years following World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a survivor. Setting out to conquer the bright lights of Dublin, they are rewarded with comical miscommunications, furtive liaisons, bad faith, bad luck, bad sex, and compromise; marrying for the wrong reasons, betraying for the wrong reasons, fighting in their separate ways against the overwhelming wave of expectations forced upon "girls" of every era.The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue charts unflinchingly the pattern of women’s lives, from the high spirits of youth to the chill of middle age, from hope to despair, in remarkable prose swinging from blunt and brutal to whimsical and lyrical. It is a saga both painful and hilarious, and remains one of the major accomplishments of Edna O’Brien’s extraordinary career.