Someone once said whether history remembers you as a rebel or a freedom fighter depends on whether you lose or win. Whether the same applies to a dictator is open to question. Edna O’Brien seems to be ...

A charismatic stranger in a remote Irish village turns out to be a war criminal in O'Brien's new novel. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls the book one... A Clash Of Manners And Monsters In Edna O'Brien's ...

“The Little Red Chairs” (Little, Brown, $27, 320 pages), Edna O’Brien’s latest novel, begins in the place to which O’Brien always eventually returns: a remote town in western Ireland, filled with ...

THE LITTLE RED CHAIRS. By Edna O’Brien. Little Brown. 320 pages. $27. “The Little Red Chairs,” Edna O’Brien’s first novel in 10 years, opens with all the enigma and anticipation of a fairy tale. A ...

If the natural world is suspicious of his presence — dogs are heard ‘‘barking crazily’’ and strange birds sing — the villagers are not. They welcome him, this figure who goes by the name of Dr ...

In the "Prologue" to her 2012 autobiography, Country Girl, Edna O'Brien tells readers about being tested for deafness a few years ago at a National Health clinic in London where she lives. O'Brien was ...