Girl

Author: O'Brien, Edna

Brand: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 240

Release Date: 18-06-2020

Part Number: 37794443

Details: The final novel by the legendary Irish icon Edna O'Brien, author of The Country Girls.

'The taboo-breaking, the fabulous prose - there's no one like Edna.' Anne Enright
'Girl broke me in two: a hard and beautiful miracle.' Eimear McBride
'An extraordinary act of imagination.' J.M. Coetzee
'Glittering energy . . . Exemplary.' Colm Tóibín

I was a girl once, but not any more . . .

A young Nigerian woman, barely more than a girl herself, must learn to survive with a child of her own, in a world which seems entirely consumed by madness. As she navigates a landscape of terrors and trials, ruled by Boko Haram, can she find a place of safety within a society blinkered by mistrust and denial?

'Astonishing.' New Statesman
'Raw and transfixing.' Observer
'A masterpiece.' Irish Independent
'Mesmerising.' Sunday Times
'Devastating and moving.' Daily Telegraph

*Winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2020; longlisted for the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction; shortlisted for the 2020 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction; shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2020*

EAN: 9780571341184

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English