The Little Red Chairs - Softcover

O'Brien, Edna

3.24

9,945 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571316298 ISBN 13: 9780571316298

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2015

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY A Sunday Times, Observer, Financial Times and Sunday Express Book of the Year When a man who calls himself a faith healer arrives in a small, west-coast Irish village, the community is soon under the spell of this charismatic stranger from the Balkans. One woman in particular, Fidelma McBride, becomes enthralled in a fatal attraction that leads to unimaginable consequences. The BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls trilogy begins in August 2019. Her stunning new novel Girl will be published by Faber in September 2019, available to pre-order now.

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""The Little Red Chairs" is a daring invention set at the bloody crossroads where worlds collide: savage, tender and true." "John Banville""

"Reading "The Little Red Chairs" reaffirms a belief I've held since I first read Ms. O'Brien's work: She is, quite simply, a master." "Kevin Powers""

"Edna O'Brien's The Little Red Chairs" is a gem of a novel, a text to treasure." "Nuruddin Farah""

"Devastating but characteristically insightful [and] artfully written.... It is also the first great work of fiction to explore the new underworld of migrant labour in bulimically rich London, meticulously researched from the inside." "Ed Vulliamy, "Guardian "(UK)""

"Authoritative and engrossing.... For all its confrontations with calamity and upheaval, "The Little Red Chairs" is neither grim nor fraught with despair. It is filled, on the contrary, with a narrative energy and aplomb.... This is a writer whose descriptive gift is fine-tuned." "Patricia Craig, "Independent" (UK)""

"The narrative is harrowing, yet it is full of lyrical language and moving touches of the everyday." ""Telegraph "(UK)""

"Edna O'Brien's "The Little Red Chairs" is a gem of a novel, a text to treasure." "Nuruddin Farah""

"Extraordinary." "Claire Messud, Boston Globe"""

"Extraordinary." "Claire Messud for the "Boston Globe"""

"O'Brien's fizzing, risk-taking symphony is a triumph.... The most brilliant powerfully evocative Irish novel published in 2015.... This is storytelling of the highest order, resounding with the empathy and authority we yearn for in fine writing." "Joseph O'Connor, Independent (Ireland)""

Book Description:

A Sunday Times, Observer, Financial Times and Sunday Express Book of the Year. Shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2016.

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