Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford in 1955 and educated at University College Dublin.
He is the author of five novels: The South, (1990) winner of The Irish Times Literature Prize in 1991; The Heather Blazing, winner of the Encore Award for the best second novel in 1992; The Story of the Night (1997); The Blackwater Lightship (1999), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and The Master (2004), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Los Angeles Times Novel of the Year and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger in France; and The Testament of Mary (2012), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013.
Tóibín's books have been translated into 25 languages.
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- Picador, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-330-37356-2
EAN 9780330373562
This book celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities - a cosmopolitan city of vibrant architecture and art, great churches and museums, intriguing port life and extravagant nightclubs, restaurants and bars. It moves from the story of the city's founding, and huge expansion in the nineteenth century, to the lives of Gaudi, Miro, Picasso, Casals and ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,10 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104776-8
EAN 9780141047768
"Brooklyn" is a tender story of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty. In the character of Eilis Lacey Colm Toibin has created a remarkable heroine in a novel of devastating emotional power.
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- Penguin UK, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-104174-2
EAN 9780141041742
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 ...
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- Simon & Schuster, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 262 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-4391-4895-2
EAN 9781439148952
Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when ...
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- Penguin UK, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-0-670-91812-6
EAN 9780670918126
In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving her family and home, Eilis sets off to forge a new life ...
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- Picador, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 12,20 €
ISBN 978-0-330-38986-0
EAN 9780330389860
In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helens adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six ...
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- Picador, 2007
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PVP: 13,25 €
ISBN 978-0-330-44183-4
EAN 9780330441834
A collection of exquisite stories from Booker-shortlisted Colm Tóibín Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This is an acute, masterful and ...
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Richard Garay lives alone with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from those around him. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, "The Story of the Night" is a powerful and moving novel about a man who, ...
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In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland and her family for Barcelona, determined to become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and proceeds to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish emigre to Spain, forces her to re-examine ...
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