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The Empty Family (Paperback)
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The Empty Family (Paperback)
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List price R453
Loot Price R375
Discovery Miles 3 750
You Save R78 (17%)
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On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel
Brooklyn, Colm Toibin returns with a stunning collection of
stories--now available in paperback--"a book that's both a perfect
introduction to Toibin and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure"
( The Seattle Times ). Critics praised Brooklyn as a
"beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland
in the 1950s." In The Empty Family, Toibin 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).
In the breathtaking long story "The Street," Toibin imagines a
relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona--a taboo affair
in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In "Two Women," an
eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland
and must confront emotions she has long repressed. "Silence" is a
brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the
writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party. Reviewed
on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, The
Empty Family will further cement Toibin's status as "his
generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated,
contradictory power" ( Los Angeles Times ).
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