The Empty Family: Stories - Brossura

Tóibín, Colm

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0241954029 ISBN 13: 9780241954027

Casa editrice: Penguin, 2011

Riassunto

'I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.' In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence each of Tóibín's stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of five other novels, including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a collection of stories, Mothers and Sons.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0241954029
• ISBN 13: 9780241954027
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 224