Colm Tóibín

«Libro del año» según The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times y The Observer Novela sobre la fatalidad, el exilio, el amor o la familia, Brooklyn es una historia para siempre, dueña de un

«TÓIBÍN EN SU MEJOR VERSIÓN».THE TIMESLa emocionante continuación de Brooklyn, ganadora del Premio Costa Book, mejor libro del año segúnThe Guardian, The Daily Telegraph,TheSunday Times y The Observe

Colm Toibins Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one womans terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tibn has produced a masterwork Sunday Times The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time Zo Heller Guardian, Books of the Year A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life Ali Smith TLS, Books of the Year

Hi ha pocs autors amb la capacitat de commoure amb l’elegància i la senzillesa amb què ho fa Colm Tóibín. Un llibre unànimement elogiat per la crítica i els lectors.Eilis Lacey, la jove irlandesa que

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce.

The most striking example of Tóibín's emotional control . . . [An] eloquent expression of the bond between a mother and a son' GuardianOne snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel’s moth

This book was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards. Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Slowly, through the gift of music and the power of friendship, she finds a glimmer of hope and a way of starting again. As the dynamic of the family changes, she seems both fiercely self-possessed but also a figure of great moral ambiguity, making her one of the most memorable heroines in contemporary fiction. The portrait that is painted in the years that follow is harrowing, piercingly insightful, always tender and deeply true. Colm Toibin's Nora is a character as resonant as Anna Karenina or Madame Bovary and Nora Webster is a novel that illuminates our own lives in a way that is rare in literature. Its humanity and compassion forge an unforgettable reading experience. "A profoundly gifted world writer." (Sebastian Barry). Colm Toibin was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of seven other novels including Blackwater Lightship, The Master and The Testament of Mary, all three of which were nominated for the Booker Prize, with The Master also winning the IMPAC Award, and Brooklyn, which won the Costa Novel Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. In 2014 Nora Webster was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Awards. He lives in Dublin.

«Libro del año» según The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times y The Observer Novela sobre la fatalidad, el exilio, el amor o la familia, Brooklyn es una historia para siempre, dueña de un

"I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that ´ In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.'On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace's dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family's game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act.House of Names is a story of intense longing and shocking betrayal. It is a work of great beauty, and daring, from one of our finest living writers.

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go.Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.

It is the battle between those who use a toothbrush and those who dont. So wrote Augusta Gregory to W.B. Yeats; she was referring to the riots at the Abbey Theatre over The Playboy of the Western World, and she knew which side she was on. In this remarkable biographical essay, Colm Toibin examines the contradictions that defined the position of this essential figure in Irish cultural history. The wife of a landlord and MP who had been personally responsible for introducing measures that compounded the misery of the Irish peasantry during the Great Famine, Lady Gregory devoted much of her creative energy to idealizing the same peasantry while never abandoning the aristocratic hauteur, the social connections or the great house which her birth and marriage had bequeathed her. Early in her writing life, her politics were staunchly unionist yet she campaigned for the freedom of Egypt from colonial rule. Later she wrote plays celebrating rebellion, but trembled in her bed when the Irish revolution threatened her property and her way of life. Lady Gregorys capacity to occupy mutually contradictory positions was essential to her heroic work as a founder and director of the Abbey Theatre nurturing Synge and OCasey, battling rioters and censors and to her central role in the career of W. B. Yeats. She was Yeatss artistic collaborator (writing most of Cathleen Ni Houlihan, for example), his helpmeet, and his diplomatic wing. Toibins account of Yeatss attempts by turns glorious and graceless to memorize Lady Gregorys son Robert when he was killed in the First World War, and of Lady Gregorys pain at her loss and at the poets appropriation of it, is a moving tour de force of literary history. Toibin also reveals a side of Lady Gregory that is at odds with the received image of a chilly dowager. Early in her marriage to Sir William Gregory, she had an affain with the poet and anti-imperialist Wilfred Scawen Blunt and wrote a series of torrid love sonnets that Blunt published under his own name. Much later in life, as she neared her sixtieth birthday, she fell in love with the great patron of arts John Quinn, who was eighteen years her junior. Lady Gregorys Toothbrush is a sharp, concentrated, witty and much-needed reassessment of a major cultural figure who has been oddly taken for granted and often badly misunderstood.

A &i Times& i and &i Sunday Times& i Best Book of 2024 the sequel to the beloved bestseller &i Brooklyn& i

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a not to be missed (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS. So begins Colm Toibins fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Toibin survives, but he has entered, as he says, the age of one ball. The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and 60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of Toibins novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship, and Nora Webster. Toibin describes his education by priests, several of whom were condemned years later for abuse. He writes about Irish history and literature, and about the long, tragic journey toward legal and social acceptance of homosexuality.

It is impossible to read Tóibín without being moved, touched and finally changed' – Independent on SundayColm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland’s high

Brooklyn divides its story, and its character, between the borough of New York and Tóibín’s favoured stamping ground of Enniscorthy, in Wexford, south-east Ireland. (“I thought it was dreary,” he sai

"Fine ''800. Eilis e una ragazza molto giovane; vive in Manda con la sorella Rose e la madre vedova, conducendo un''esistenza timida e semplice, segnata dall''amicizia con Nancy. Un giorno Rose porta a casa come ospite un prete di New York, che garantisce di poter trovare un posto fisso a Eilis in America. Eilis ci crede; la madre, pur soffrendone, accetta di farla partire e presto Eilis, sbarcata a Brooklyn, incomincia a lavorare nel grande magazzino di un italiano, Bartocci, vivendo in una camera d''affitto presso una certa signora Kehoe. A poco a poco, Eilis riesce a vincere la nostalgia e la solitudine; si inserisce nel nuovo ambiente, impara a esprimere le proprie idee, a frequentare ambienti di ogni tipo, scopre il privilegio di leggere e acculturarsi. Fino a incontrare anche un ragazzo italo-americano, Tony, di cui si innamora, che la leghera per sempre all''America. Dovra vincere molte diffidenze, ma Eilis, novella Cenerentola, forte del proprio carattere riuscira a coronare i suoi sogni. "