The Empty Family

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Beschreibung

<b>The bestselling and award-winning author of <i>Brooklyn</i>, 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” (<i>The Seattle Times</i>).</b><br><br>Critics praised <i>Brooklyn</i> as a “beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.” In <i>The Empty Family</i>, 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” (<i>The Observer</i>, London).<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <i>The Empty Family</i> will further cement Tóibín’s status as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>).

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781439195963

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

203 x 134 x 20 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Verlag / Hersteller

Scribner Book Company