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Hace 2 días · Colm Tóibín in New York. Photograph: Benedict Evans. Then there is the enigma of Eilis. One of the small miracles of Brooklyn is that the reader, and the other characters, care so much about a ...
Hace 4 días · The book’s author, Colm Tóibín, knows this struggle intimately. Like Eilis, he is an Irish immigrant. Though titled Long Island, much of the book takes place in Tóibín’s own hometown of Enniscorthy, just south of Dublin. In the video above he reflects on his upbringing and the inspiration for this heart-stopping novel; the “idea of ...
Hace 4 días · Novelist Colm Tóibín has said he always had a sense that he would return to the story of the heroine of his 2009 novel, "Brooklyn." Our book critic Maureen Corrigan says she's glad Tóibín ...
Hace 1 día · Colm Tóibín, a brilliant and congenial figure in the Irish literary landscape, is also a student, and teacher, of the classic English novel who’s become – shall we say – affectionately ...
Hace 5 días · Colm Tóibín never planned a sequel to ‘Brooklyn.’ Then the opening scene of ‘Long Island’ came out of the blue
Hace 2 días · Set in the 1950s, Brooklyn takes the fairytale of New York – an Irish girl who emigrates to America – and turns it into a heartbreaking story of homesickness and regret (it is a Colm Tóibín novel, after all). Adapted by Nick Hornby in 2015 into an award-winning film starring Saoirse Ronan, it is the best known and loved of Tóibín’s 10 ...
Hace 5 días · The Irish author Colm Tóibín will come to North Carolina for the very first time this month on a tour for his latest novel, Long Island, a sequel to 2009’s beloved blockbuster Brooklyn.
