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Brooklyn. Colm T[ibn Paperback - 2010

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This seller has earned a 3.74 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Readers described Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn as a quiet, understated immigrant coming-of-age novel whose simple, lucid prose and patient pacing build to a surprisingly forceful final act. Many admired its evocative portrait of 1950s Ireland and New York, the ache of homesickness, and the moral ambiguity of Eilis’s life-defining choice; others were frustrated by the heroine’s passivity, the lack of overt conflict, and an ending some found abrupt. The film adaptation drew frequent mention, with several noting it captures the book’s spirit while tidying the conclusion.

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Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. The book that inspired the major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan.

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.

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'With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tibn 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' Zo Heller Guardian, Books of the Year

'Magnificent' Sunday Telegraph

'A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life' Ali Smith TLS, Books of the Year

When you are finished why not read the companion novel Nora Webster.

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  • Title Brooklyn. Colm T[ibn
  • Author Colm Tib-N
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 251
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Group, London
  • Publication date 2010
  • ISBN 9780141041742 / 0141041749
  • Weight 0.42 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 0.57 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 1.45 cm)
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914
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