by Anne Enright · Bompiani · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788845261725
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«La veglia» is the novel by Anne Enright published by Bompiani in paperback (289 pages, in Italian).
Veronica Hegarty belongs to a large Irish Catholic family. When her brother Liam's body is found near Brighton, she decides to find out what broke his life; organizing the funeral immerses her in the shared past, among fears, obsessions, and family secrets. A novel about memory, grief, and the bonds that hold a family together.
Italian translation by Sergio Claudio Perroni. The novel won the Man Booker Prize 2007 and its original English title is The Gathering.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and book clubs interested in memory and family dynamics.
Anne Teresa Enright is an Irish writer. The first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015–2018) and winner of the Man Booker Prize (2007), she has published eight novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction work called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, about the birth of her two children. Her essays on literary themes have appeared in the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, and she writes for the books pages of The Irish Times and The Guardian. Her fiction explores themes such as family, love, identity and motherhood.
