The gathering enright novel7/2/2023 ![]() The Gathering sends fresh blood through the Irish literary tradition, combining the lyricism of the old with the shock of the new. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. The Gathering is a family epic, clarified through Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. ![]() As Enright traces the line of betrayal and redemption through three generations, she shows how memories warp and secrets fester. 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. The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan are gathering in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother, Liam, drowned in the sea. 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. ![]()
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