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The Empty Family
Author: Colm Tóibín
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780241954027
Category: Fiction
Price: € 11,55 >> € 10,50
From the Irish woman returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence, to the young Pakistani man who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town, each of the stories in 'The Empty Family' miraculously contains whole worlds. In his new book Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history.
"An author at the very peak of his writing powers... what is amazing is not so much that so late in the game a love story can be written convincingly and sympathetically, but that it can be made into a repository of such heart-wrenching delicacy and emotional depth." -- Times
Recommended by: Hadewijch (Book of the Year)