The Empty Family

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Colm Toibin

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The bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn, Colm T�ib�n, returns with a stunning collection of stories--"a book that's both a perfect introduction to T�ib�n 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, T�ib�n 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," T�ib�n 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 T�ib�n's status as "his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" ( Los Angeles Times ).

Author Biography:

Colm T�ib�n is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the laureate for Irish fiction for 2022-2025 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, T�ib�n lives in Dublin and New York.

Release date NZ

January 3rd, 2012

Author

Colm Toibin

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

288

Dimensions

134x204x17

ISBN-13

9781439195963

Product ID

10847894

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