EUROPEAN BOOKCLUB #5: Anne Enright with 'Green Road'
On June 3rd, 2021, at 6 p.m. GMT+1, the Irish author Anne Enright will be a guest at the European Book Club. The European Book Club is a cooperation project of EUNIC Ireland. Every first Thursday of the month, best-selling European authors are invited to talk and discuss their novels in English translation.
ABOUT THE EVENT
Culture Ireland invites you to the fifth and last event of the European Book Club: The Irish author Anne Enright will speak in English about her novel The Green Road. Moderated by Sinéad Mac Aodha, Director of Literature Ireland, this event marks the finale of EUNIC Ireland’s European Book Club 2021.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne Enright, born, raised and still living and working in Dublin, is the author of numerous novels, short stories and essays. Family, cutting the cord, motherhood and many more are themes Enright explores in her writing. She is an author which published in The New Yorker, The London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books and won several prizes include The Booker Prize in 2007 and the Irish Novel of the year, twice. Enright loves not only to write herself, but also to show others the joy of it as a Professor of Creative Writing at University College Dublin.
ABOUT THE BOOK: 'GREEN ROAD'
'Green Book' tells us the story of Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet who return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen – a woman who doesn’t quite know how to love her children – forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.
The Green Road was published in 2015 and has been translated into several languages including Italian (La strade verde), French (L'Herbe maudite), German (Rosaleens Fest) and Spanish (El Camino de los Madigans).
REGISTRATION
You can register here. You will then receive a link to the online live session.