Brooklyn

Resumen del libro

"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.

Biografía del autor

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy, Co Wexford in 1955 and educated at University College Dublin.<br><br>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.<br><br>Tóibín's books have been translated into 25 languages.<br>