Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom.
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.
'With this elating and humane vel, Colm Toibin has produced a masterwork' Sunday Times
'The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time' Zoe Heller Guardian, Books of the Year
'A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life' Ali Smith TLS, Books of the Year
Paperback | 272 pages
129 x 198 x 17mm | 191g
16 Jun 2011
Penguin Books Ltd
London, United Kingdom
English
0141041749
9780141041742
Condition: Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including very minimal scuff marks and creasing, but no holes or tears. All pages are undamaged, with no creasing or tearing, pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. There is very minimal yellowing bordering the pages. No missing pages.