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The empty family
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- Book Synopsis
- In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Tóibìn delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. '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.' 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 Tóibìn's stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained. 'Exquisite . . . The chief reason to read these stories is the peculiar power of Colm Tóibìn's prose' Telegraph 'Astonishingly precise, depicting complex and conflicted states of mind with rare clarity' Observer 'Beautifully observed' Sunday Times
- About The Author
- Colm Tóibìn was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster and, most recently, House of Names. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780141041773
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, (30 June 2011)
- Number of Pages
- 214
- Weight
- 166 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 197 x 130 x 15 mm
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