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, UK). 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 ).
Sobre o autor(a)
Tóibin, Colm
COLM TÓIBÍN nasceu em Enniscorthy, na Irlanda, em 1955. É autor de dez romances, entre os quais A luz do farol (2004), O mestre (2005), Mães e filhos (2008), Brooklyn (2011) e Nora Webster (2015), publicados pela Companhia das Letras. Venceu o Costa Book Awards e o Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Vive entre Dublin e em Nova York. O mágico ganhou o Rathbones Folio Prize de 2022. |
| ISBN | 9781439195963 |
| Autor(a) | Tóibin, Colm |
| Editora | Scribner |
| Ano de edição | 2012 |
| Páginas | 288 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 20,40 X 13,40 |