Brooklyn (Paperback)
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Brooklyn (Paperback)

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Paperback 272 Pages
Published: 01/10/2015
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A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow-up, Long Island.

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.

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'With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork' Sunday Times

'Unforgettable' Spectator

'The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time' Zoë Heller Guardian, Books of the Year

'Magnificent' Sunday Telegraph

'A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life' Ali Smith TLS, Books of the Year

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241972700
Number of pages: 272
Weight: 192 g
Dimensions: 195 x 130 x 17 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork - Sunday Times

The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time - Zoë 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

Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted ... a novel of magnificent accomplishment - Peter Kemp, Sunday Times, Novel of the Year

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“Celtic nostalgia”

This is the first book by Colm Tóibín that I've read. I liked it a lot and was impressed that he wrote so well and so sensitively about female characters in the Ireland of the 1950s.
The story flowed easily, the... More

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“Beautiful”

The description of the characters is wonderful. It really was a fab book, I loved reading every word of it.
A girl's survival in a new country and how she copes as a lodger, work and love...
After a death in the... More

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“Excellent book”

This is a really heartwarming book about a young girl who leaves home for the first time. It's really easy to read and you get a strong affinity for the main characters

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