Edna O’Brien The Country Girls Trilogy review, recensie en informatie van de romans van de Ierse schrijfster. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de romans The Country Girls (1960), The Lonely Girl (1962), en Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). De Nederlandse vertalingen van de romans De buitenmeisjes, Meisje met de groene ogen en Een wilde december zijn op dit moment alleen antiquarisch of als ebook verkrijgbaar.
Edna O’Brien The Country Girls Trilogy review en recensie
- “The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose – there’s no one like Edna O’Brien.” (Anne Enright)
- “Glittering energy… Exemplary.” (Colm Tóibín)
- “Surprising and beautiful and courageous … A beacon.” (Megan Nolan)
The Country Girls Trilogy
The Country Girls (1960)
The Lonely Girl (1962)
Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964)
- Auteur: Edna O’Brien (Ierland)
- Soort boek: Ierse romans, trilogie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Faber and Faber
- Omvang: 704 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: £ 10,99
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de Country Girls trilogie van Edna O’Brien
Caithleen ‘Kate’ Brady and Bridget ‘Baba’ Brennan are growing up in a repressive Irish village after World War II. Kate is a romantic, looking for love; Baba is a reckless survivor. After being expelled from convent school, they dream of the bright lights of Dublin – and are rewarded with bad luck and bad sex; marry for the wrong reasons; but continue to fight the expectations forced upon ‘girls’ of every era to become brave new women.
Edna O’Brien’s debut novels revolutionised Irish literature in the 1960s. Banned by the authorities as ‘indecent’ and burned by the clergy, they were notorious for their frank portrayal of sexual desire: but scandal turned to fame, and made this glorious coming-of-age tale an instant classic that inspires and delights readers to this day.
Edna O’Brien was born on 15 December 1930 Tuamgraney, County Clare, Ireland. She wrote more than twenty celebrated works of 
fiction, including her classic The Country Girls Trilogy, as well as plays and four works of non-fiction, which have been translated internationally into over 30 territories. Her final novel was the acclaimed Girl, which was awarded the Kerry Group Prize for Fiction in 2020 and was the recipient of many other literary awards. She died on 27 july 2024 in London at the age of 93 and buried on the island Inis Cealtra, County Clare in Ireland.