Brooklyn: The iconic prequel to Long Island, a 'masterwork' Sunday Times (Penguin Essentials, 75) - Softcover

Buch 1 von 2: Eilis Lacey

Tóibín, Colm

 
9780241983782: Brooklyn: The iconic prequel to Long Island, a 'masterwork' Sunday Times (Penguin Essentials, 75)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0241983789 ISBN 13: 9780241983782
Verlag: Penguin, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's 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 Tóibín has produced a masterwork' Sunday Times

'The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time' Zoë 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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster and, most recently, House of Names. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.

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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.

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Verlag
Penguin
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0241983789
ISBN 13 
9780241983782
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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