She had incurred debts, which angered and overwhelmed her sixty-year-old husband. Not long ago, her high-end, high-fashion boutique was shuttered. Her life, like her village, is in a maddening stasis at the time of the doctor’s arrival. The novel’s other main character is Fidelma McBride, the attractive, forty-year-old wife of a draper. “Is it related to Dracula?” the garda asks. However, later, when pressed by a garda (policeman), he says he was born in Alexandria, and his name is common in Transylvania. Vladimir Dragan, and, when first asked, he says he’s from Montenegro. He talks poetry, talks mysticism, talks medicine, and offers to the publican whom he initially meets a business card that reads Healer and Sex Therapist. Dressed in black, he looks like a holy man. Her story starts in a “freezing, backwater” Irish village, whose settled, edge-of-modernity rhythms are suddenly disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious, white-bearded stranger. What if, instead, he went to Ireland? Then what?Ĭelebrated Irish writer Edna O’Brien tells us in her latest, oddest, and yet strangely compelling novel. Moving from Ireland to London and then to The Hague, The Little Red Chairs is Edna O'Brien's first novel in ten years - a vivid and unflinching exploration of humanity's capacity for evil and artifice as well as the bravest kind of love.What if Radovan Karadžić-the mastermind of the infamous forty-four-month Siege of Sarajevo in which 11,541 Sarajevans perished-what if Karadžić did not in the war’s aftermath go into hiding for a decade in Serbia, as he is thought to have done?Īlso, what if he did not there grow a white beard and play the role of “new age” physician, specializing in the treatment of sexual disorders, as reported? What if he was not arrested in Belgrade, as, indeed, he was? In disgrace and utterly alone, she embarks on a journey that will bring both profound hardship and, ultimately, the prospect of redemption. The Cloonoila community is devastated by this revelation, and no one more than Fidelma, who is made to pay for her deviance and desire. Vlad is arrested and revealed to be a notorious war criminal and mass murderer.
While en route to pay tribute at Yeats's grave, Dr. Then, one morning, the illusion is abruptly shattered. Before long, the beautiful black-haired Fidelma McBride falls under his spell and, defying the shackles of wedlock and convention, turns to him to cure her of her deepest pains. Vladimir Dragan is a poet, a self-proclaimed holistic healer, and a welcome disruption to the monotony of village life.
Broodingly handsome, worldly, and charismatic, Dr. One night, in the dead of winter, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Irish town of Cloonoila. A fiercely beautiful novel about one woman's struggle to reclaim a life shattered by betrayal from the 2018 winner of the PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature.
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