Synopses & Reviews
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast.
The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness -- a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.
Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.
A profoundly moving work about a family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.
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"A rich, capacious story, buoyed by tender humor....The Green Road...offers a survey of Enright's magnificent dexterity....There's nothing she can't do with perspective, tone and time." Ron Charles, Washington Post
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"Hugely readable....The Green Road should confirm Enright's status as one of our greatest living novelists." John Sutherland, The Times (UK)
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"This novel is a vibrant family portrait, both pitiless and compassionate, witty and stark, of simple people living quiet lives of anguish, sometimes redeemed by moments of grace." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
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A major new novel from the winner of the Man Booker Prize.
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Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
About the Author
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has published three volumes of stories, one book of nonfiction, and five novels. In 2015, she was named the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. Her novel The Gathering won the Man Booker Prize, and her last novel, The Forgotten Waltz, won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.