by Anne Enright · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099501633
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«The Gathering» is Anne Enright's literary fiction novel, published by Vintage in paperback (272 pages, in English).
After Liam's death, the nine surviving Hegarty siblings gather in Dublin for his wake. His sister Veronica recalls Liam's childhood and reconstructs a family story that begins with grandmother Ada Merriman and spans three generations marked by love, disappointment, desire, and secrets.
Winner of the 2007 Booker Prize. In 2008 it also received the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
A work for reading groups and for readers interested in contemporary Irish literary fiction.
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.
