Brooklyn
Colm Toibin
(Author)
Description
Colm T ib n's New York Times bestselling novel--now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture--is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. "One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future. Author "Colm T ib n...is his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" (Los Angeles Times). "Written with mesmerizing power and skill" (The Boston Globe), Brooklyn is a "triumph...One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations" (USA TODAY).Product Details
Price
$38.76
Publisher
Shang Hai Wen Yi / Tsai Fong Books
Publish Date
January 01, 2016
Pages
205
Language
Chinese
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9787532159093
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About the Author
Colm Tibnis the author of ten novels, includingThe Magician, his most recent novel;The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize;Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award;The Testament of Mary; andNora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the laureate for Irish fiction for 20222025 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tibn lives in Dublin and New York.