Stir-fry
STIR-FRY (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1994, Penguin paperback ISBN 0-14-023083-1 [out of print]) (New York: HarperCollins, 1994; Alyson paperback ISBN 1-55583-723-9 [out of print].) Lambda Literary Award Finalist 1994. STIR-FRY is a coming-of-age novel about Maria, a seventeen-year-old girl from rural Ireland who comes to university in Dublin and accidentally moves in with a lesbian couple.
Translations:
GEROERD(Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Atlas, 1994), ISBN 90-254-0591-6
GEROERD (new translation, Mouria, 2011)
ZARTES GEMUSE, SCHARF GEWURZT (Dusseldorf: Econ, 1996), ISBN 3-612-27248-9
UN BUEN SALTEADO (Barcelona-Madrid: Egales, 2003), ISBN 84-95346-44-3
STIR-FRY (Milan: It Dito e La Luna, 2007), ISBN 88-86633-47-5
‘With this clever, interesting and very assured first novel Donoghue has put down a marker for the so-called New Ireland.' – TIMES
‘Stir-fry is a coming-out story, but only in the sense that OEDIPUS REX is a murder mystery or the ODYSSEY is a travelogue.’ – LESBIAN REVIEW OF BOOKS
'This evocative and insightful novel is destined to become a classic in lesbian literature' – VILLAGE VOICE