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
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, Father Flood. Via a church contact, he arranges for Eilis to travel to America where a job opportunity has arisen in New York with a reputable "merchant of Italian origin".
Eilis finds lodgings in an eccentric boarding house and ekes out an existence in the cosmopolitan melting pot that is 1950s Brooklyn, impressing her employer, outwitting her landlady, and even falling in love. It seems her dream is truly becoming a reality. But then fate intervenes: a family crisis back home forces Eilis to make a choice between the past and the future, the old world and the new.
Told with a masterful and elegant simplicity, Brooklyn is a sublime Trans-Atlantic coming-of-age story by one of the UK's greatest living writers.
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Paperback | 264 pages
19.8 x 13 x 1.7 | 312g -
27 Oct 2015
Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Sydney, Australia
English
Edition Statement: Media Tie-in
1743540108
9781743540107
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Condition:Â Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover, including very minor scuff marks along the edges, 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. No missing pages.