01815cam a2200277 i 4500 296106854 TxAuBib 20160331120000.0 160114s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u bl2016001831 9780316378239 0316378232 eng rda TxAuBib rda O'Brien, Edna. The little red chairs [BOOK] : a novel / Edna O'Brien. NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2016. 299 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Ten years on from her last novel, Edna O'Brien reminds us why she is thought to be one of the great Irish writers of this and any generation. When a wanted war criminal from the Balkans, masquerading as a faith healer, settles in a small west coast Irish village, the community are in thrall. One woman, Fidelma McBride, falls under his spell and in this astonishing novel, Edna O'Brien charts the consequences of that fatal attraction. The Little Red Chairs is a story about love, the artifice of evil, and the terrible necessity of accountability in our shattered, damaged world. A narrative which dares to travel deep into the darkness has produced a book of enormous emotional intelligence and courage. Written with a fierce lyricism and sensibility, The Little Red Chairs dares to suggest there is a way back to redemption and hope when great evil is done. Almost six decades on from her debut, Edna O'Brien has produced what may be her masterpiece in the novel form. 20160331. Man-woman relationships Fiction. War criminals Fiction. Ireland Fiction.