by Anne Enright · btb Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442740048
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«Das Familientreffen» is Anne Enright's novel, published by btb Verlag in hardback (343 pages, in German).
The Hegarty clan buries Liam, the family's black sheep, in Dublin, drowned with stones in his pockets. His sister Veronica prepares the funeral and memories surface: the grandmother who renounced love, the mother overwhelmed by pregnancies, and the shadow of a secret that changed their childhood. A novel about memory, guilt, and family secrets.
German translation by Hans-Christian Oeser of the novel that won the 2007 Booker Prize, originally published as «The Gathering».
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in portraits of large families and their secrets.
Anne Teresa Enright is an Irish writer. The first Laureate for Irish Fiction (2015–2018) and winner of the Man Booker Prize (2007), she has published eight novels, many short stories, and a non-fiction work called Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, about the birth of her two children. Her essays on literary themes have appeared in the London Review of Books and The New York Review of Books, and she writes for the books pages of The Irish Times and The Guardian. Her fiction explores themes such as family, love, identity and motherhood.
