The Green Road

De: Anne Enright

Narrado por: Alana Kerr Collins, Lloyd James, Gerard Doyle

From internationally acclaimed, Man Booker Prize - winning author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness - an audiobook about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.

Spanning 30 years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age, their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.

A profoundly moving work about a family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.

©2015 Anne Enright (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Sad story

I liked the writing, it is beautifully written but the story is just too sad for no specific reason which made the story of the characters even more sad.

Not an uplifting book.

This book was a sad story about an Irish family's troubled relationships inside and outside the family.

Wonderful

If you could sum up The Green Road in three words, what would they be?

simply enjoyable to listen to; to get into the hearts and minds, and the life uncertainties of such singular characters.

But... What Happened?!

Any additional comments?

I don't know what happened at the end of the book. There were several plot lines that had just come to an important juncture and suddenly the Audible voiceover comes on and says the book is over. What happened?

The writing was good, with great character development. I honestly thought something must have happened to my download. Was someone running late on their deadline so they just stopped? Very disappointing.

Why the need to come up with cutting edge style?

in trying to tell the story in a way that I can only describe as "connect the dots storytelling"... takes away from narrative. Plus pretty morose as well. Not a fan.