Edition details
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín. Frontispiece and four full-page colour illustrations (one double-page spread) by Sally Dunne. Introduced by the author. Pale blue endpapers. Bound in cloth printed with a wrap-around colour picture. Red ribbon page marker. Plain cloth slipcase. 22.2x14cm. 296pp.
About the book
Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn follows Eilis Lacey, a young woman who leaves a small Irish town for New York in the 1950s. Work, evening classes and the unfamiliar routines of immigrant life gradually lead her towards a new sense of independence, while a relationship with Tony, an Italian American plumber, offers the possibility of a future she had never imagined. When family circumstances bring her back to Ireland, the life she left behind begins to exert a powerful claim. With quiet precision, Tóibín explores homesickness, love, migration and the difficulty of choosing between two places that both feel like home. This intimate novel captures the emotional cost of starting again and the decisions through which a life takes shape.
