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Hace 5 días · Fifteen years after his extraordinarily successful novel, Brooklyn, writer Colm Tóibín is back with a sequel, Long Island. He chatted with Brendan about being Irish abroad, about mothers, and ...
Hace 2 días · The long and the short of Long Island is that it’s a sequel to Brooklyn, the continuing adventures of Eilis, if you will.It’s twenty years since the previous book and Eilis is living with Tony, and their children Larry and Rosella, in a house neighbouring Tony’s extended family (Tony’s brothers, mother and father are all close enough to see from the windows).
Hace 4 días · Colm Tóibín is no fan of sequels. In fact, he “doesn’t think novelists should do them”, he told The New York Times Book Review podcast recently. Yet he has written one, prompted by an ...
Hace 2 días · The concept of following Brooklyn with a sequel took even the author by surprise, but after 15 years the story of Eilis continues in Long Island. We spoke wi...
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Hace 3 días · Niamh Cusack reads the heartbreaking sequel to Colm Toibin's bestselling novel, Brooklyn, set twenty years on. Since leaving Brooklyn, Eilis and Tony have built a happy and secure life in...
Hace 6 días · Colm Tóibín is the author of 11 novels including The Master, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the Dublin Literary Award.
Hace 3 días · When two roads diverge in a wood, as Frost once wrote, it is time to make a decision. Same applies IRL. Especially if that decision could spell all the difference in the world. As “Long Island,” Colm Toibin’s sequel to his 2009 novel “Brooklyn” opens, our Irish-born heroine Eilis has reached a critical juncture: she has just been informed that Tony, her Italian-American husband, has ...
