- Man-woman relationships, War criminals, Fiction, Romance fiction
Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall.
Log it
Sign in to log this.
Character
Grave, earnest, prestige and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
Who loves it, who doesn't
No profiled raters yet.
Ask the title
A yes-or-no question, answered from what people wrote here, on TMDB and on Wikipedia. Never made up.
Reviews
No reviews yet.
About the book
- Author
- Edna O'Brien
- First published
- 2015
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Center Point Pub, Back Bay Books, Little Brown & Company
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571316298
Where to read
Libraries first: a card gets you most books for nothing. Each opens that service’s page for this title.
On Open Library, 1 have read it and 5 want to.
Josephine Edna O’Brien (Tuamgraney, 1930–London, 2024) was an Irish writer. She was known for her novels and short stories exploring women’s experiences and social conflicts. Her work The Country Girls (1960), which addressed sexual and social issues, broke taboos in post-war Ireland and brought her international recognition. --- Josephine Edna O’Brien (Tuamgraney, 1930–Londres, 2024) fue una escritora irlandesa. Destacó por sus novelas y relatos sobre la experiencia femenina y los conflictos sociales. Su obra The Country Girls (1960), al abordar temas sexuales y sociales, rompió tabúes en la Irlanda de la posguerra y le dio reconocimiento internacional.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Tastebuds Other media included when they land close.
Random family 200385% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemporary.
We were the Mulvaneys 199685% alikeBoth grave, earnest, classical in form.
A thousand acres 199184% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemporary.
Cavedweller 199883% alikeBoth earnest, grave, prestige.
Invisible Child 202183% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemporary.
The Goldfinch 201382% alikeBoth earnest, grave, contemporary.
Salvage the Bones 201182% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemporary.
White oleander 198982% alikeBoth grave, earnest, contemporary.
Mystic River 200386% alikeFilm · Both grave, earnest, classical in form.
The Corner 200083% alikeTelevision · Both grave, earnest, contemporary.