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Another Country
After Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus's friends, especially the homosexual actor Eric Jones who has been Vivaldo's lover.
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The News from Dublin
The instant Sunday Times besteller'The work of a writer who has once again demonstrated complete command of his craft' - The Irish Times 'Short stories to astonish and delight' - Financial Times'Tales of quiet power' - The GuardianIn The News from Dublin, a beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island, Colm Tóibín delves into the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves.A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man goes to Dublin from Enniscorthy to implore the Minister for Health for a special favour. A young woman is pregnant during the Spanish Civil War. An undocumented worker finds himself living an illegal life and must leave San Francisco, and his child, after thirty years in America. Three sisters who have been living in Argentina decide to return to Catalonia.'Tóibín is the consummate cartographer of the private self, summoning with restrained acuity (and a delicious streak of sly humour) the thoughts his characters struggle to find words for' - Clare Clark, The Guardian
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Molloy
Introduced by Colm TóibínBut as Moran's physical and mental state deteriorate, his narrative starts to mirror Molloy's in mysterious ways.Molloy is the first of the three great novels Samuel Beckett produced during his 'frenzy of writing' in the late 1940s.
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Brooklyn
With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork
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Death in Spring
Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece
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Long Island
The unputdownable, searing love story and instant Sunday Times bestseller, Long Island is the sequel to Colm Tóibín's beloved bestseller, Brooklyn.
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A Guest at the Feast
Droll, careful reflections on Ireland, illness and religion in a welcome collection of essays . . . [the] melancholy elegance of the prose guarantees the reader's enjoyment
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The Magician
Winner of the Rathbones Folio PrizeThis is an enormously ambitious book, one in which the intimate and the momentous are exquisitely balanced. It is the story of a man who spent almost all of his adult life behind a desk or going for sedate little post-prandial walks with his wife. From this sedentary existence Tóibín has fashioned an epic
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Nora Webster
It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them.
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Brooklyn
De jonge Ierse Eilis emigreert naar Brooklyn voor een beter leven. Aanvankelijk heeft ze het niet naar haar zin, maar dankzij dansavonden op zaterdag en een studie boekhouden gaat ze zich er stilaan thuis voelen. Wanneer ze naar aanleiding van het overlijden van haar zus terugkeert naar haar vaderland loopt ze Jim, een oude bekende en nieuwe liefde, tegen het lijf. De keuze wordt hartverscheurend: teruggaan naar het spannende Amerika, waar ze samen is met Tony, of in het vertrouwde Ierland blijven voor Jim.
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The News from Dublin
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn and its sequel Long Island, and The Magician, and three 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.
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The Modern Library
For Colm Toíbín and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspirational, compelling. In their selection of the best 200 novels written since 1950, the editors make a case for the best and the best-loved works and argue why each should be considered a modern classic. Enlightening, often unexpected and always engaging this tour through the world of fiction is full of surprises, forgotten masterpieces and a valuable guide to what to read next. Authors in the collection include Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, Daphne du Maurier, Patrick Hamilton, Carson McCullers, J. D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud; Flannery O'Connor, Mulk Raj Anand, Raymond Chandler, L. P. Hartley, Amos Tutuola, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Samuel Beckett, Patricia Highsmith, Chinua Achebe, Isak Dineson, Alan Sillitoe, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Grace Paley, Harper Lee, Olivia Manning and Mordecai Richler.
€ 10,99