New Releases by Anne Enright

One of Literary Hub''s Most Anticipated Books of 2026 From one of our most distinguished literary voices, a defining essay collection blending personal reflection with urgent political writing and wide–ranging cultural criticism. For thirty years Anne Enright―one of our greatest living novelists (Times)―has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature, and her own life, and drawing us into her precise insights. These essays, collated from throughout Enright’s career, take us from Galway to Honduras, from keen–eyed memoir to urgent political writing. Enright writes about the free voices and controlled bodies of women in society: she interprets Sophocles’s Antigone through the lens of the Mother and Baby Homes in Galway; writes on Ireland’s successful 2018 referendum on abortion rights; and offers new perspectives on writers such as Alice Munro, Toni Morrison, James Joyce, Helen Garner, and Angela Carter. True to the themes that saturate her award–winning fiction, Attention explores the intersection between the personal and political, complex family dynamics, and the body in crystalline, urgent prose. This stunning collection unites Enright’s cultural criticism, literary, and autobiographical writing for the first time.

"Gärdsmygen är en magnifik roman". Sally Rooney Nell McDaragh kände aldrig sin morfar, den berömda poeten Phil McDaragh. Men hans dikter tycks tala direkt till henne. Impulsiv, rastlös, och självsäker på ett sätt som man bara kan vara om man är tjugotvå, lämnar Nell sitt barndomshem för att leva en liv på egna premisser i Dublin. Här ska hon leva ett bohemiskt och hitta till sin egen röst som författare. Hon festar, trasslar in sig i destruktiva romanser och får snart jobb som spökskrivare till en känd influenser. Nells mamma Carmen hamnar i existentiell kris när hennes dotter lämnar hemmet och hemsöks av sitt förlutna. Över hela familjen McDaragh vilar en skugga av Carmens far Phil - geniet, poeten, skojaren och förföraren. Mannen som var expert på vackra ord, men som på hemmaplan var en självupptagen mobbare av rang och som en gång lämnade sin cancersjuka fru med två små barn - Carmen och hennes syster. Gärdsmygen handlar om tre generationer kvinnor i familjen McDaragh, tre kvinnor som alla försöker försonas eller göra upp med det avgrundsdjupa hål av förlust och ilska som den självupptagna Phil McDaragh grävt i deras familj. Det är sorgligt, humoristiskt och skarpt. Gärsmygen är en underbar roman om att ärva erfarenhet av förlust, trauma och överlevnadsinstinkt. Men det är också en berättlese om hur vi kan laga varandra, om alla de band som trots allt binder familjen McDaragh samman.

Anne Enrights »bislang bester Roman« (The Irish Times) über zwei Frauen und ihre Reise zu sich selbst Die junge Irin Nell verdient ihr Geld mit dem Schreiben von Reiseberichten über Orte, an denen sie nie war. Denn Nell hat Fantasie, und das Schreiben ist ihr Leben. Ihren Großvater, den berühmten Dichter Phil McDaragh, hat sie nie kennengelernt, aber seine Verse sprechen intensiv zu ihr. Auch Nells Mutter Carmel kennt diese Verse gut. Lange hat sie sich vergeblich bemüht, das Image des Dichters und seine Lyrik mit ihren Erinnerungen an den Vater zusammenzubringen. Nun ist es an Nell, um die Versöhnung zu kämpfen, die ihrer Mutter versagt blieb. So zärtlich wie wahrhaftig erzählt Anne Enright in ihrem berührenden Familienroman von vererbten Wunden und der tröstlichen Kraft der Poesie. »Ein großartiger Roman.« Sally Rooney

Winner of the 2024 Writers’ Prize in Fiction • Shortlisted for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction • Named a Best Book of the Summer by The Guardian and The Times • Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Books of 2023, one of the Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction, and a Best Book of the Year by Time, The New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews, The Guardian, Library Journal, Harper''s Bazaar, The Conversation, and Kobo Canada From Booker-prize winning author Anne Enright, an astonishing novel about the love between mother and daughter—sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. "Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been." Nell—funny, brave and so much loved—is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell''s leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel''s famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions. This is a meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A generational saga that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent.

In three urgent pieces of non-fiction Anne Enright explores speech and silence in the lives of Irish women.

From a Man Booker Prize–winning author, a "hauntingly eloquent" novel of love, loss, family, and what a woman finds while in search of herself ( The Seattle Times). Born in Dublin in 1965, Maria Delahunty was raised by her grieving father after her mother died during childbirth. Two decades later, Maria is living in New York awash in longing and in love with the wrong man. Going through his things, she discovers a photograph of a little girl who looks an awful lot like her—but isn''t her. Soon Maria begins to unravel a long-buried secret more devastating than her father''s mourning, but bursting with possibility . . . "Glittering . . . An Irish woman with a plate of steel somewhere between her skin and her heart . . . must travel back and forth, from childhood memories to the present, ratcheting herself up to adulthood as so many of us do." —Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review "So sad that you want to laugh out loud. [This novel] deals with areas of experience and patterns of living that no one else has noticed." —Colm Tóibín, New York Times–bestselling author of Brooklyn "The emotional tautness springing from bare-bones storytelling suggests Raymond Carver. The penetrative exploration of domestic relationships, especial among women, calls to mind . . . Anne Tyler." — Newsday

Cette année, les quatre enfants de Rosaleen Madigan retournent fêter Noël en Irlande, dans la maison de leur enfance. Et pour cause : ce sera la dernière fois. Leur mère, veuve depuis quelques années, a décidé de la vendre. Constance, l''aînée, arrive avec les courses et toute sa famille. Son frère Dan rentre lui de Toronto, sans son copain Ludo, dont il vient pourtant d''accepter la demande en mariage. Leur cadet Emmet, qui dirige des opérations humanitaires, arrive d''Afrique avec un chagrin d''amour. Et Hanna, la benjamine, artiste qui vit à la capitale, apporte ses doutes et ses joies face à sa maternité toute récente. En soumettant cette réunion familiale et le passé de toute une fratrie à sa formidable acuité psychologique, Anne Enright insuffle dans son roman une profonde empathie pour ces êtres en souffrance, aux lâchetés ordinaires et aux espoirs émouvants. L''Herbe maudite est enracinée dans l''Irlande d''aujourd''hui tout en rendant palpable le besoin des jeunes générations de tourner le dos au pays.

Wo xiang yao jiang shu de gu shi fa sheng zai wo de wai po jia,Da gai shi zai wo ba jiu sui nei yi nian de xia tian,Bu guo wo wu fa que ding yi qie shi fou zhen de fa sheng guo.Wo bi xu wei zhei jian zhen jia wei ding de shi jian lai zuo jian zheng,Yin wei ta nei jian ye xu fa sheng guo de shi jian zong shi zai wo nei xin bu ting di si han.

Rosaleen is matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grew up, Rosaleen''s four children left the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she''s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.

Η βραβευμένη με Booker συγγραφέας Ανν Ένραϊτ επιστρέφει με ένα ρωμαλέο μυθιστόρημα που διαδραματίζεται σε μια μικρή πόλη της Ιρλανδίας, στις ακτές του Ατλαντικού. Ο χορταριασμένος δρόμος είναι μια ιστορία για την οικογένεια, τον αποχωρισμό, τον οίκτο και την ιδιοτέλεια, για τα κενά στην ανθρώπινη καρδιά και τον αγώνα μας να τα καλύψουμε. Στο βιβλίο ξεδιπλώνεται η ιστορία της Ρόζαλιν, κυρίαρχης προσωπικότητας στην οικογένεια των Μάντιγκαν που βρίσκεται ένα βήμα πριν από την απόλυτη ένωση ή την ανεπανόρθωτη διάλυση. Όταν μεγαλώνουν, τα τέσσερα παιδιά της Ρόζαλιν εγκαταλείπουν τη δυτική Ιρλανδία για να βιώσουν ζωές που δεν μπορούσαν ποτέ να φανταστούν – στο Δουβλίνο, στη Νέα Υόρκη και στο Μάλι της Αφρικής. Στις αρχές της τρίτης ηλικίας η δύστροπη, υπέροχη μητέρα τους, ανακοινώνει πως αποφάσισε να πουλήσει το σπίτι και να τους δώσει τα μερίδιά τους. Τα ενήλικα τέκνα της επιστρέφουν για τα τελευταία Χριστούγεννα στο σπίτι, με την αίσθηση ότι η παιδική τους ηλικία εξαφανίζεται, ότι οι προσωπικές τους ιστορίες γίνονται αντικείμενο αγοραπωλησίας. Ένα βαθιά συγκινητικό μυθιστόρημα για την απέλπιδα προσπάθεια των μελών μιας οικογένειας να ανακτήσουν τις σχέσεις που έχασαν και να σφυρηλατήσουν όσες δεν είχαν ποτέ. Ο χορταριασμένος δρόμος είναι το πιο ώριμο και ολοκληρωμένο μυθιστόρημα της Ανν Ένραϊτ, μιας επιβλητικής συγγραφέως που ενσωματώνει στο έργο της όλο τον δυναμισμό και την απαστράπτουσα ένταση της ιρλανδικής παράδοσης. «Η Ένραϊτ διαθέτει μιαν ασυνήθιστη μείξη προτερημάτων. Είναι μια πλούσια, λυρική συγγραφέας [...] αφοριστική, μ’ έναν τρόπο αναζωογονητικό και σατυρικό, και αποκρύπτει συχνά περισσότερα από όσα αποκαλύπτει... Το έργο της διαθέτει εκείνη τη γνώριμη ιρλανδική προφορικότητα –εκφραστική, ζωηρή, μύχια–, η οποία συνδυάζεται με μια πικρή συστολή που παραπέμπει στη δραματουργία του Χάρολντ Πίντερ... Ο χορταριασμένος δρόμος είναι ένα μυθιστόρημα γεμάτο αλήθεια και μεταμέλεια, με μια φοβερή ωριμότητα ως προς τη σαφήνειά του, απολύτως συντονισμένη με τα βάσανα της οικογένειας Μάντιγκαν που πρωταγωνιστεί... Πρόκειται για ανθρώπους που τους συνδέουν μόνο οι αναμνήσεις, και η γραφή απλώνεται πανέμορφα για να ενσωματώσει ακριβώς και να τιμήσει αυτές τις αναμνήσεις». JAMES WOOD, The New Yorker «[Η Ένραϊτ] μας αποκαλύπτει τις ανείπωτες σκέψεις κάθε χαρακτήρα, σε βαθμό που καταλήγουμε να τους γνωρίζουμε καλύτερα και από τα αδέλφια μας. Η διαδικασία αυτή χαρακτηρίζεται από θέρμη και γενναιοδωρία... [Η Ένραϊτ] έχει τη δική της, ξεχωριστή φωνή. Είναι πνευματώδης, οξυδερκής, βαθυστόχαστη, διορατική και ενίοτε πολύ διασκεδαστική». SUE GAISFORD, Financial Times «Είναι ένα ιρλανδικό μυθιστόρημα που δεν φοβάται τίποτα». BELINDA MCKEON, Irish Times «Εξαιρετικά ευανάγνωστο... Το μυθιστόρημα αυτό επικυρώνει ότι η Ανν Ένραϊτ είναι μία από τις σπουδαιότερες συγγραφείς μας (τους;)». JOHN SUTHERLAND, The Times (Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο)

Rosaleen ist eine Frau, die nichts tut und von den anderen alles erwartet. Sie ist Mitte siebzig, die vier Kinder sind schon lange aus dem Haus. Die Brüder Dan und Emmett sind vor der Enge der irischen Heimat in die Ferne geflohen; das Nesthäkchen Hanna wollte auf den Theaterbühnen der Welt reüssieren, spricht aber nun dem Alkohol zu, und Constance, die Älteste, hat sich selbst verloren. Doch abgenabelt hat sich keines der Kinder. Noch immer versucht jedes auf seine Weise, es dieser besten aller Mütter recht zu machen. Und scheitert. Da kommt die Einladung zu einem letzten Weihnachtsfest in Ardeevin. Rosaleen möchte das Haus, in dem die Kinder groß geworden sind, das voller Erinnerungen an glückliche Momente und Verletzungen steckt, verkaufen. Die Geschwister reisen mit diffuser Hoffnung auf Versöhnung an – und doch endet es, wie noch jedes Weihnachten geendet hat. Booker-Preisträgerin Anne Enright wagt sich auf den dunklen Grund unserer Gefühle, studiert menschliches Verhalten dort, wo es am störanfälligsten ist, wo Liebe und Hass nahe beieinander liegen und es kein oder zumindest kein einfaches Entrinnen gibt: in der Familie.

One of the Guardian''s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century "With language so vibrant it practically has a pulse, Enright makes an exquisitely drawn case for the possibility of growth, love and transformation at any age." —People From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland''s Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness—a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them. Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen''s four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold. A profoundly moving work about a family''s desperate attempt to recover the relationships they''ve lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright''s most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.

La valse oubliée est le roman d’un double déclin. Celui de la prospérité matérialiste et celui de l’amour. Avec la verve et l’insolence qu’on lui connaît, Anne Enright, l’auteur de Retrouvailles (Actes Sud, 2009 ; Booker Prize 2007), fait tomber les masques et déjoue les conventions pour décortiquer les mécanismes d’une passion irlandaise en temps de crise.

Winner of the 2012 Andrew Carnegie Award for Excellence in Fiction "A tour de force."—Francine Prose, New York Times Book Review "A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other woman—Gina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT worker—The Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticity…This novel’s beauty lies in Enright’s spare, poetic, off-kilter prose—at once heartbreaking and subversively funny. It’s built of starling little surprises and one fresh sentence after another. Enright captures the heady eroticism of an extramarital affair and the incendiary egomania that accompanies secret passion: For all their utter ordinariness, Sean and Gina feel like the greatest lovers who’ve ever lived." —Elle

A San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick "Much of the book is astonishingly funny; the rest would break your heart." —Colm Tóibín Anne Enright is one of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation. The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, and her follow-up novel, The Forgotten Waltz, garnered universal praise for her luminous language and deep insight into relationships. Now, in Making Babies, Enright offers a new kind of memoir: an unapologetic look at the very personal experience of becoming a mother. With a refreshing no-nonsense attitude, Enright opens up about the birth and first two years of her children’s lives. Enright was married for eighteen years before she and her husband Martin, a playwright, decided to have children. Already a confident, successful writer, Enright continued to work in her native Ireland after each of her two babies was born. While each baby slept, those first two years of life, Enright wrote, in dispatches, about the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of motherhood. Here, unfiltered and irreverent, are Enright’s keen reactions to the pains of pregnancy, the joys of breast milk, and the all-too-common pressures to be the “perfect” parent. Supremely observant and endlessly quizzical, Enright is never saccharine, always witty, but also deeply loving. Already a bestseller in the UK, Making Babies brings Enright’s autobiographical writing to American readers for the first time. Tender and candid, it captures beautifully just what it’s like for a working woman to become a mother. The result is a moving chronicle of parenthood from one of the most distinctive and gifted authors writing today.

Man Booker winner Anne Enright’s moving and darkly funny debut novel of sex, death and reproduction Grace is a TV producer whose life is transfigured when she answers the door to a fully-fledged angel. Stephen was a bridge-builder in Canada before he killed himself, but now that he has come to stay with Grace he spends the night hanging by the neck in her shower, to help himself think. She falls in love, moving steadily from the spiritual to the anatomical. Meanwhile, as her TV day job on the ''Love Quiz'' begins to spiral out of control, on the other side of her life is her father, benign, bewigged and stricken by a stroke - apparently mad but probably the sanest person in her life. As the three worlds meet and merge in a forest of contradictions, we watch Grace take the pacific path from cynicism to innocence, as all around her the novel thunders to a conclusion. ‘Reckless intelligence, savage humour, slow revelation, no consolation: Anne Enright''s fiction is jet dark - but how it glitters’ New York Times Book Review

Het weer van gisteren gaat over verlies en verlangen en is geschreven met de bitterzoete tederheid die het werk van Anne Enright kenmerkt. In Het weer van gisteren staat het menselijk bestaan centraal: de relaties die we aangaan met anderen en de relaties die mislukken. De verhalen spelen zich af in Dublin en Venetië, op een Amerikaanse campus en in een caravan op een Franse camping. De vrouwelijke personages in de verhalen worden ontroerd, lastiggevallen of gefascineerd door mannen die ze maar niet kunnen doorgronden. Deze scherpe, schitterende verhalen maken eens te meer duidelijk dat Anne Enright moet worden gezien als een van de beste auteurs van deze tijd.

Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, and the Washington Post Book World. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering and Actress, this is a collection of sharp, unpredictable short fiction about people struggling to connect in an increasingly disconnected world. Yesterday''s Weather shows us a rapidly changing Ireland, a land of family and tradition, but also, increasingly, of organic radicchio, cruise-ship vacations, and casual betrayals. An artisan farmer seethes at the patronage of a former Catholic-school classmate, now a successful restaurateur; a bride cheats on her rich husband with an old college friend—a madman who refuses his pills, disappears for weeks on end, and plays the piano like a dream. These and other stories make up a volume that is "astonishing: moving, emotionally accurate, sly, and laugh-out-loud funny" ( O, The Oprah Magazine). "A dazzling collection." — Time Out

The stories in Taking Pictures are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grainy texture of real life: freshly palpable, sensuous and deeply flawed. From Dublin to Venice, from an American college dorm to a holiday caravan in France, these are stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright''s women are haunted by children, and by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out.A woman''s one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another''s is thwarted by an swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. These are sharp, vivid stories of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers.

A crowd of siblings gathers in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother in this "stunning" novel by the award-winning author of Actress ( The Washington Post). The surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering for the wake of their wayward, alcoholic brother, Liam, drowned in the sea after filling his pockets with stones. He is the third of the twelve Hegarty siblings to die. His sister, Veronica, collects the body and keeps the dead man company, guarding the secret she shares with him—something that happened in their grandmother''s house in the winter of 1968. As prize-winning author Anne Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, her distinctive intelligence twists the world a fraction and gives it back to us in a new and unforgettable light. The Gathering is an "wonderfully elegant and unsparing" epic of an Irish family ( Los Angeles Times)—a novel about love and disappointment, how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. "Entrancing...a haunting look at a broken family stifled by generations of hurt and disappointment, struggling to make peace with the irreparable."— Entertainment Weekly "A melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly."— Publishers Weekly "Her sympathy for her characters is as tender and subtle as Alice McDermott''s; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O''Brien''s. The Gathering is her best book."—Colm Toibin "Hypnotic."— Booklist (starred review)

A novel based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay''s Eva Peron, from the Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Gathering and Actress. In the spring of 1854 in Paris, Francisco Solano López came to the house of Eliza Lynch to improve his French, or so he said. Eliza was nineteen, already with an ex-husband, and he was the young son of Paraguay''s dictator in Europe recruiting engineers for South America''s first railroad. By the time he returned to Asunción in 1855, Eliza was pregnant with his child. In less than a decade, López plunged Paraguay into a conflict that would kill over half its population. By then Eliza was notorious—as both the angel of the battlefield inspiring the troops, and the demon whose rapacious appetites drove López''s fatal ambition. This is her story, in which "Enright artfully explores the power of beauty and the beauty of power, and finds them remarkably similar as neither leads to a good end" ( Booklist) . "The magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez . . . springs to mind." — The Guardian "Water, an element as silvery and unpredictable as Enright''s extraordinary prose . . . transports Eliza from Ireland to Europe . . . to Paraguay and back to Britain." — The New York Times Book Review

"Ce livre est la chronique, tour à tour émouvante, profonde et désopilante, du chamboulement invraisemblable qu''a provoqué la maternité dans la vie de son auteur. Il nous fait entrevoir ce qu''elle a appris sur la condition humaine : parfois la vérité inattendue des clichés, mais parfois aussi des vérités inédites, sublimes, ineffables. Il parle aussi de la routine, de la fatigue, de la lourdeur, de la confusion - et des restrictions, réelles, de la liberté. Mais ce livre parle surtout de la joie. Beaucoup de personnes, écrit Anne Enright, se sentent - " gênées par la joie. Exclues. Jalouses "."