<div>A novel based on the life of the nineteenth-century Irishwoman who became Paraguay&rsquo;s Eva Peron, from the Man Booker Prize&ndash;winning author of The Gathering and Actress. In the spring of 1854 in Paris, Francisco Solano L&oacute;pez 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&rsquo;s dictator in Europe recruiting engineers for South America&rsquo;s first railroad. By the time he returned to Asunci&oacute;n in 1855, Eliza was pregnant with his child. In less than a decade, L&oacute;pez plunged Paraguay into a conflict that would kill over half its population. By then Eliza was notorious&mdash;as both the angel of the battlefield inspiring the troops, and the demon whose rapacious appetites drove L&oacute;pez&rsquo;s fatal ambition. This is her story, in which &ldquo;Enright artfully explores the power of beauty and the beauty of power, and finds them remarkably similar as neither leads to a good end&rdquo; (Booklist). &ldquo;The magical realism of Gabriel Garc&iacute;a M&aacute;rquez . . . springs to mind.&rdquo; &mdash;The Guardian &ldquo;Water, an element as silvery and unpredictable as Enright&rsquo;s extraordinary prose . . . transports Eliza from Ireland to Europe . . . to Paraguay and back to Britain.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review</div>

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch

<div>From a Man Booker Prize&ndash;winning author, a &ldquo;hauntingly eloquent&rdquo; 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&mdash;but isn&rsquo;t her. Soon Maria begins to unravel a long-buried secret more devastating than her father&rsquo;s mourning, but bursting with possibility . . . &ldquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review &ldquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;Colm T&oacute;ib&iacute;n, New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of Brooklyn &ldquo;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.&rdquo; &mdash;Newsday</div>

What Are You Like?

<div>A crowd of siblings gathers in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother in this &ldquo;stunning&rdquo; 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&mdash;something that happened in their grandmother&rsquo;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 &ldquo;wonderfully elegant and unsparing&rdquo; epic of an Irish family (Los Angeles Times)&mdash;a novel about love and disappointment, how memories warp and secrets fester, and how fate is written in the body, not in the stars. &ldquo;Entrancing&hellip;a haunting look at a broken family stifled by generations of hurt and disappointment, struggling to make peace with the irreparable.&rdquo;&mdash;Entertainment Weekly &ldquo;A melancholic love and rage bubbles just beneath the surface of this Dublin clan, and Enright explores it unflinchingly.&rdquo;&mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Her sympathy for her characters is as tender and subtle as Alice McDermott&rsquo;s; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s. The Gathering is her best book.&rdquo;&mdash;Colm Toibin &ldquo;Hypnotic.&rdquo;&mdash;Booklist (starred review)</div>

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The Gathering

<div>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&rsquo;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&mdash;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 &ldquo;astonishing: moving, emotionally accurate, sly, and laugh-out-loud funny&rdquo; (O, The Oprah Magazine). &ldquo;A dazzling collection.&rdquo; &mdash;Time Out</div>

Yesterday's Weather

<div>From the winner of the Man Booker Prize for The Gathering. “Clever, unsettling, and thoroughly modern . . . We can hear echoes of the Joyce of Dubliners.” —The New York Times Book Review The second novel to be published in America by widely acclaimed Irish author Anne Enright, The Wig My Father Wore is a spry, hilarious novel about parents, love, religion, and the absurdities of them all. Grace is a young Dubliner who works on a television show called Love Quiz. Her father is going benignly senile, but her life otherwise seems fairly solid. When Stephen arrives on her doorstep, however, Grace has no idea what she’s in for. Stephen explains that he is an angel, a former bridge builder who committed suicide in 1934. He has been sent back to earth (as all suicides are) to guide lost souls. Grace does not take this personally at first, but eventually she has to face the idea that things are not so easy, and that her greatest intimacy is with this supernatural creature. As Grace begins to take stock of her life and the prospect of caring enough about something to fight for it, The Wig My Father Wore takes us on a moving, surreal romp through Catholicism, parents, and the reclamation of love from the twin modern evils of cynicism and the detritus of pop culture. “Weird and wonderful . . . Enright beams out a vibrant and complex picture of religion, sex, love, and redemption united in a celestial blue, televisual glow of wit and linguistic sedition.” —The Guardian (London) “Mesmerizing.” —The Independent on Sunday (London)</div>

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