The Empty Family - Colm Toibin

Descriere The Empty Family - Colm Toibin

The acclaimed author of the novels The South and The Blackwater Lightshippresents a new collection of short stories. \nOn the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín returns with a stunning collection of stories--a book that's both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure ( The Seattle Times ). \nCritics praised Brooklyn as a beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s. In The Empty Family, Tóibín has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters--people linked by love, loneliness, desire--the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart ( The Observer, UK). \n \n In the breathtaking long story The Street, Tóibín imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona--a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In Two Women, an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. Silence is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party. \n \n The Empty Family will further cement Tóibín's status as his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power ( Los Angeles Times ).\n

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Scribner Book Company

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9781439195963

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