The Gathering is a 2007 novel by Irish writer Anne Enright. It won the 2007 Booker Prize. [1][2][3][4] Although it received mostly favourable reviews on its first publication, sales of The Gathering had been modest before it was named as one of the six books on the Booker Prize shortlist in September 2007.

2007年3月1日 · The Gathering bears witness to a modern Ireland—which at the time of its publication in 2007 was the shiny, bright, roaring Celtic Tiger, an economic miracle—that cannot escape its past. It is told in a looping, troubling first-person by Veronica Hegarty, who lives an aimless existence in a detached five-bedroom home in the Dublin suburbs ...

2007年9月10日 · The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars.

In “The Gathering,” author Anne Enright intricately portrays the dynamics of the Irish Hegarty family. The narrative unfolds during the wake of Liam, the troubled brother whose tragic death sends ripples through the lives of the remaining siblings.

2007年11月28日 · The Gathering by Anne Enright is a raw, finely written, textured, brave, open-eyed introspection of a woman in crisis against the backdrop of her brother’s tragic death through suicide and her subjective examination of her family, their varied reactions to this death, their history, and the pivotal events defining its course, occasionally ...

2007年9月30日 · Reckless intelligence, savage humor, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright’s fiction is jet dark — but how it glitters. Her prose often ravishes and sometimes repels: reading her...

2007年9月1日 · by Anne Enright ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 2007. A dreamy, melancholy swirl of a story, wise about the bonds and burdens linking children to each other and their grown... A lyrical meditation on memory and connectedness involving three generations of an Irish family.

The Gathering is a daring, witty, and insightful family epic, clarified through Anne Enright's unblinking eye. It is a novel about love and disappointment, about how...

From one of Ireland’s most singular voices and winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize, Anne Enright’s The Gathering is a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family haunted by the past. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea.