A Long Winter

Resumen del libro

'The most striking example of Tóibín's emotional control...

An eloquent expression of the bond between a mother and a son' GuardianOne snowy morning, after arguing with her husband, Miquel's mother walks out from their home high up in the Pyrenees and does not return. With his younger brother stationed far away on military service and his father cast out by the people of the town, Miquel and his father are left to fend for themselves. Together they will be forced to battle the elements, and their resentment of each other, through the long winter.

Miquel's desperate searching for his mother is only interrupted when Manolo, an orphaned servant boy from the next village, arrives to help out in the house. As Miquel is forced to confront the reality of his mother's absence, Manolo, with his silences and longing gaze, offers the promise of new love, and another kind of life. 'A Long Winter evokes loss, lonelieness, guilt and survival in a few masterly strokes' Independent

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Colm Tóibínx{0026}lt;/B (Enniscorthy, 1955) es uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses de nuestro tiempo, ganador del Forster Award en 1995 y de la Medalla Bodley en 2022. De su obra cabe destacar las novelas x{0026}lt;I The Master x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2018), ganadora del Premio IMPAC, el Premio al mejor libro extranjero de x{0026}lt;I Babelio, x{0026}lt;/I el Los Angeles Times Book Prize y finalista del Booker Prize; x{0026}lt;I El testamento de Maríax{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), finalista del Man Booker; x{0026}lt;I Brooklynx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), su obra de ficción más conocida, llevada al cine por John Crowley y ganadora del Premio Costa Book; x{0026}lt;I Nora Websterx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016), ganadora del Premio Hawthornden, x{0026}lt;I La casa de los nombres x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2017) y x{0026}lt;I Madres e hijosx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2019), una selección de los relatos recogidos en x{0026}lt;I The Empty Familyx{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I Mothers and Sonsx{0026}lt;/I ,ganadora delEdge Hill Short Story Prize. Tóibín es también un excelente crítico literario, como demuestran las piezas reunidas en el volumen x{0026}lt;I Nuevas maneras de matar a tu madrex{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2013). Su última novela, x{0026}lt;I El magox{0026}lt;/I , ha sido ganadora del premio Rathbones Folio y ha sido escogida como uno de los mejores libros de año por x{0026}lt;I The New York Timesx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I The Timesx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I NPRx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I The Washington Postx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Vogue x{0026}lt;/I yx{0026}lt;I The Wall Street Journalx{0026}lt;/I . Su obra ha sido traducida a más de treinta idiomas.x{0026}lt;/P