The acclaimed author of the novels The South and The Blackwater Lightshippresents a new collection of short stories.
The Empty Family will further cement Tóibín\'s status as his generation\'s most gifted writer of love\'s complicated, contradictory power ( Los Angeles Times )..
Silence is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party.
In Two Women, an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed.
In the breathtaking long story The Street, Tóibín imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona--a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence.
In The Empty Family , Tóibín has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters--people linked by love, loneliness, desire--the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart ( The Observer , UK).
Critics praised Brooklyn as a beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.
On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn , Colm Tóibín returns with a stunning collection of stories--a book that\'s both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure ( The Seattle Times ).
The acclaimed author of the novels The South and The Blackwater Lightshippresents a new collection of short stories
