The Gathering读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 272页 | 7.0 | 2020 | Jonathan Cape (UK)/ Grove Press, Black Cat(US) |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD 14.00 | 2020-02-20 … | 2020-03-15 … | 56 |
The Gathering is a novel by the Irish author Anne Enright. It is Enright's fourth book. It won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. It had been an outsider to win the prize, but was eventually chosen unanimously.
The novel is a saga about an Irish family set in Ireland and England.It begins with the suicide of Liam Hegarty. His family gather in Dublin for his wake. Liam's sister Veronica, the novel's narrator, looks through her family's history to try and make sense of his death. In the process she uncovers uncomfortable truths about her family. Enright described the book as "...the intellectual equivalent of a Hollywood weepie."
作者简介Anne Enright (born 1962 in Dublin) is a Booker Prize-winning Irish author. She has published essays, short stories, a non-fiction book and four novels.
She was educated at Lester Pearson United World College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, at Trinity College Dublin, and at the University of East Anglia, where she earned an M.A. in the creative writing cour...
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