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The Empty Family is a collection of short stories by Irish writer Colm Tóibín. It was published in the UK in October 2010 and was released in the US in January 2011. Reception. The Empty Family was shortlisted for the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. Reviews were generally positive.
- Colm Tóibín
- 288 pp (hardback)
- 2010
- 1 October 2010
1 de ene. de 2010 · 2,352 ratings369 reviews. On the heels of his breakout success, the bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín returns with a stunning collection of new stories. In the breathtaking long story “The Street,” Tóibín imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona—a taboo affair in a community ...
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- Hardcover
Internet Archive. Language. English. 214 p. ; 22 cm. Short stories. One minus one -- Silence -- The empty family -- Two women -- The pearl fishers -- The new Spain -- The colour of shadows -- Barcelona, 1975 -- The street.
8 de oct. de 2010 · The Empty Family by Colm Tóibín – Review. Hermione Lee finds Colm Tóibín reaching beyond his alienated narrators. Fri 8 Oct 2010 19.05 EDT. C olm Tóibín is a fine lyricist of yearning, exile...
1 de oct. de 2010 · From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long...
4 de ene. de 2011 · 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).
From the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master, and winner of the International Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction.In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often ...
