Anne Enright

"A new, unapologetic kind of adultery novel. Narrated by the proverbial other woman--Gina Moynihan, a sharp, sexy, darkly funny thirtysomething IT worker--The Forgotten Waltz charts an extramarital affair from first encounter to arranged, settled, everyday domesticity... This novel's beauty lies in Enright's spare, poetic, off-kilter prose--at once heartbreaking and subversively funny. It's built of starling little surprises and one fresh sentence after another. Enright captures the heady eroticism of an extramarital affair and the incendiary egomania that accompanies secret passion: For all their utter ordinariness, Sean and Gina feel like the greatest lovers who've ever lived." --Elle

Lyrical, dark, comic or iconoclastic, the Irish short story has always punched well above its weight. Anne Enright has brought together a dazzling collection of Irish stories by authors born in the twentieth century - from Mary Lavin and Frank O'Connor to Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry. With a pithy and passionate introduction by Enright, The Granta Book of the Irish Short Story traces this great tradition through decades of social change and shows the pleasure Irish writers continue to take in the short-story form. Deft and often devastating, the short story dodges the rolling mythologies of of Irish life to produce truths that are delightful and real. Also includes stories by: Maeve Brennan, Roddy Doyle, Mary Lavin, Colum McCann, William Trevor, John McGahern, Colm Tóibín, Claire Keegan and Kevin Barry.

Hegartyn perheen hulttiopoika Liam on kävellyt mereen Brightonissa. Kun Veronica saattaa veljensä ruumiin kotiin Dubliniin, hahmottuu hänen mielessään tarina, joka olisi pitänyt kertoa jo kauan sitten. Tarinan siemenet kylvettiin sukupovia aiemmin, isoäidin nuoruudessa, kauan ennen kuin kukaan Hegartyn kahdestatoista sisaruksesta oli syntynyt. Ja myöhemmin, sinä kesänä, kun äiti lähetti Liamin ja Veronican isoäidin taloon.

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 an angel arrives on her doorstep, however, Grace has no idea what she's in for.