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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 01/10/2015
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ISBN: 9780241972700
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 191g
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RRP: £8.99
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 Tóibín 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' Zoë 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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Imprint: Penguin
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Published: 01/10/2015
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ISBN: 9780241972700
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Length: 272 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 17mm x 129mm
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Weight: 191g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork
Sunday Times
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The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time
Zoë Heller, Guardian, Books of the Year
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A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life
Ali Smith, TLS, Books of the Year
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Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted ... a novel of magnificent accomplishment
Peter Kemp, Sunday Times, Novel of the Year
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Brooklyn moved me more than any other book this year
Nicholas Hytner, Observer, Books of the Year
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A beautifully crafted work that transformed ordinary lives into something extraordinary
Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
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No book this year gave me greater pleasure
Nell Freudenberger, Financial Times
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Not a sentence or a thought out of place. It takes over as his finest ficiton to date
Irish Times
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Remarkable freshness and immediacy ... with a lovely comedic lightness
Daily Mail
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A lovely, thoughtful book ... alive with authentic detail, moved along by the ripples of affection and doubt that shape any life: a novel that offers the reader serious pleasure
Daily Telegraph
