The Empty Family
by Colm Tóibín 2020-12-29 02:44:18
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From the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master, and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction.In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Tóibí... Read more
From the internationally celebrated author of Brooklyn and The Master, and winner of the International IMPAC 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 willingly cast adrift from their history. 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 absence, each of Tóibín''s stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.

Like Tóibín''s celebrated novels, and his previous short story collection, Mothers and Sons, reviewed on the front page of the New York Times Book Review, The Empty Family will further confirm Tóibín''s status as "his generation''s most gifted writer of love''s complicated, contradictory power." (Los Angeles Times) Less
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  • October 1, 2010
  • eng
  • 9780670918195
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Colm Tóibín, FRSL (born 30 May 1955) is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. Tóibín is the author of nine novels, including The Blackwater Lig...
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