The Empty Family

Colm Toibin

ISBN 10: 143919596X / ISBN 13: 9781439195963

Published by Scribner Book Company Jan 2012, 2012

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Neuware -The bestselling and award-winning author of 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).Critics praised Brooklyn as a "beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s." 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, London). 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 "Two Women," an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. "Silence" is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party. 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). 288 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Empty Family
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company Jan 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143919596X
• ISBN 13: 9781439195963
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 203W x 134H x 20D millimeters 203 millimeters width by 134 millimeters height by 20 millimeters depth
• Weight: 245 grams

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Synopsis

The bestselling and award-winning author of 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).

Critics praised Brooklyn as a “beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.” 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, London).

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 “Two Women,” an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. “Silence” is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party.

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).

About the Author

Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature.