Colm Tóibín
Long Island

2024 | Nakladatelství Picador

'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Toibin at his best' - The Times'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' - Douglas Stuart, author Shuggie BainLong Island is Colm Toibin's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is… possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Toibin's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path? 'Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Toibin at his best' - The Times'A masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely moving and yet full of restraint' - Douglas Stuar…t, author Shuggie BainLong Island is Colm Toibin's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Toibin's prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

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O knize

Stav:	nová
Vazba:	Brožovaná
Počet stran:	287
Jazyk:	anglicky
ISBN10:	1035029456
ISBN:	9781035029457
Edice:	Brooklyn
Vydání:	First published
Vydáno v:	London
Vystaveno:	4. 4. 2025 8:9
Číslo položky:	1200774

O autorovi

Colm Tóibín

Novinář a spisovatel se narodil v roce 1955 v irském Enniscorthy. Vystudoval angličtinu a historii na univerzitě v Dublinu. Jako editor působil v The Sunday Tribune, přispíval kritikami a politickými komentáři do The Sunday Independent a do několika dalších magazínů. Jako zpravodaj procestoval Egypt, Súdán, Afriku a další země. Snad nejznámější reportáž nazvaná „The Trial of the Generals“ pochází z roku 1980.

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