Long Island
Autor*in: Toibin, Colm
Jahr: 2024
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 304 S.
Voraussichtlich verfügbar ab: 24.01.2025
- Inhalt:
- 'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Toibin at his best' - The Times'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie BainOPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4Long Island is Colm Toibin's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Toibin's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?*Long Island was an instant Sunday Times bestseller w/c 27/5/24
Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Long Island
Autor*in: Toibin, Colm
Mitwirkende: Tóibín, Colm
Verlag: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781035029471
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung
Dateigröße: 698 KB
Format: ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage