Brooklyn

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A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Discover Brooklyn ahead of it's eagerly anticipated follow-up, Long Island.

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.

Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland.

There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.

***

'With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork' Sunday Times

'Unforgettable' Spectator

'The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time' Zoë Heller, Guardian

'Magnificent' Sunday Telegraph

The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan.

A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Discover Brooklyn ahead of it's eagerly anticipated follow-up, Long Island.

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.

Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland.

There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.

***

'With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork' Sunday Times

'Unforgettable' Spectator

'The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time' Zoë Heller, Guardian

'Magnificent' Sunday Telegraph

The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan.

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VerlagPenguin Books
EinbandKartonierter Einband (Kt)
Erscheinungsjahr2010
Seitenangabe256 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
MasseH18.2 cm x B11.3 cm x D1.7 cm 144 g
CoverlagPenguin Books Ltd (Imprint/Brand)
AutorTóibín, Colm

Über den Autor Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín, 1955 in Enniscorthy/Irland geboren, ist einer der wichtigsten irischen Autoren der Gegenwart. Er lebt in Dublin und New York, wo er an der Columbia University unterrichtet. Sein literarisches Werk wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, u.a. mit dem internationalen IMPAC-Preis und dem David Cohen Prize for Literature.Ditte Bandini, geboren 1956, studierte Völkerkunde, Religionsgeschichte und Indologie. Sie arbeitet an der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften sowie als freie Schriftstellerin und Übersetzerin.Giovanni Bandini, geboren 1951, studierte Indologie, Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft und Indische Kunstgeschichte. Er unterrichtete an der Universität Heidelberg und arbeitet seit 1987 als freier Übersetzer.

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