A Long Winter

Toibin, Colm

ISBN 10: 1668212714 / ISBN 13: 9781668212714

Published by Scribner Book Company, 2025

About this Item

SIGNED by the author. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. This is a signed British edition published by Picador. Boards may have fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages unmarked. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Seller Inventory # 1572041561

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Long Winter
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1668212714
• ISBN 13: 9781668212714
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 0.33 pounds
• Signed: signed by author

About this title

Synopsis

Available for the first time in a beautiful stand-alone edition, one of Colm Tóibín’s finest short stories and “the most striking example of Tóibín’s emotional control” (The Guardian). A Long Winter is set in the mountains of Catalonia in Spain—this edition includes a new afterword by the author on how he came to write the story.

A young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan Pyrenees upon completing his military service. His younger brother, Jordi, will be departing for his service a week after Miquel’s arrival. He will be gone for two years. Miquel notices their mother’s increasingly erratic behavior and understands that she is drinking.

As she becomes increasingly unstable, her husband resorts to drastic measures. Unable to abide his betrayal and her own grief, she walks off into the mountains. A blizzard sets in and the search for her is futile. No one will find her until the spring thaw arrives.

A gorgeous story of loss, grief, and longing, “A Long Winter” describes an extraordinary bond between a mother and son and a haunting portrait of a family in crisis. Tóibín’s powers of imagination and transfixing emotional insight are on full display.

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.