Girl
Girl
** 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 A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year Captured, abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems entirely consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds of northeastern Nigeria, through the forest and beyond; a place where her traumas are met with the blinkered judgement of a society in denial. How do we love in a world that has lost its moorings? How can we comprehend the barbarism of our enemies, and learn forgiveness for atrocities committed in the name of ideology? Edna O'Brien's new novel pierces to the heart of these questions: and the result is her masterpiece.
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O'Brien Edna
Opis
** 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
A Times, Evening Standard and Financial Times Book of the Year
Captured,
abducted and married into Boko Haram, the narrator of this story witnesses and
suffers the horrors of a community of men governed by a brutal code of
violence. Barely more than a girl herself, she must soon learn how to survive
as a woman with a child of her own. Just as the world around her seems entirely
consumed by madness, bound for hell, she is offered an escape of sorts - but
only into another landscape of trials and terrors amidst the unforgiving wilds
of northeastern Nigeria, through the forest and beyond; a place where her
traumas are met with the blinkered judgement of a society in denial.
How do we love in a world that has lost its moorings? How can we
comprehend the barbarism of our enemies, and learn forgiveness for atrocities
committed in the name of ideology? Edna O'Brien's new novel pierces to the
heart of these questions: and the result is her masterpiece.
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