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The Gathering

by Anne Enright · 2007

Literary Fiction · ranked #136 in category

Winner · The Booker Prize, 2007

Veronica Hegarty assembles her family for the funeral of her brother Liam, who has drowned himself, and finds herself trying to reconstruct the truth of what happened to Liam in their grandmother's house when they were children. Enright's Booker Prize-winning novel is about family memory, silence, and the specifically Irish relationship to shame.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2007 · 2000s
Author
Anne Enright
Standing
Essential Read

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