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1952. Trovare lavoro a Enniscorthy, nel Sud-Est dell'Irlanda, semina solo frustrazione e desiderio di un benessere che non c'è. La giovane Eilis Lacey, prigioniera del confronto quotidiano con la madre e la sorella Rose, non ha davanti a sé alcuna prospettiva, finché la visita di un prete emigrato, padre Flood, le fa intravedere l'opportunità di un'esistenza migliore, al di là dell'oceano, a New York. Sarà proprio a Brooklyn che Eilis a poco a...

Colm T¿ib¿/b> was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. His most recent novel is House of Names. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.

From Colm Tóibín, the formidable award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men--William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce--and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their complicated sons.Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dubl...

The men and women in the salons of literary Paris moved like players in a game of knowing and not knowing, pretence and disguise. He had learned everything from them. In January 1895, Henry James staged his first play in London. But the opening night was a disaster. Agonized by his failure, James travelled to Europe where he quickly found himself among fellow artists in the grand parlours and palazzos of Paris, Rome and Venice. Divining storie...

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Colm T¿ib¿/b> was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of nine novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary and Nora Webster. His work has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the Impac Award. His most recent novel is House of Names. He has also published two collections of stories and many works of non-fiction. He lives in Dublin.

Colm Tóibíns Meisterwerk endlich im Taschenbuch Er war »die Liebe ihres Lebens«. Als Maurice viel zu früh stirbt, verfällt Nora in einen Schockzustand. Im provinziellen Irland der Sechzigerjahre muss sie nun versuchen, ein selbstbestimmtes Leben als Frau und Mutter von vier Kindern zu führen. Sie sucht sich einen Job, färbt sich die Haare, um jünger auszusehen - ein Skandal in der Kleinstadt, in der jeder jeden kennt und sie auf Schritt und ...

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Una espléndida interpretación de la Orestíada de Esquilo, por el autor de Brooklyn y Nora Webster.Colm Tóibín retoma la única obra conservada del teatro griego antiguo y la revisa con maravillosa sensibilidad, centrándose en la historia de Clitemnestra, una mujer audaz, capaz de usar los instintos más lujuriosos para orquestar tu venganza y defender su rol de madre. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONFrom the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winnin...

The top ten "Sunday Times" bestselling novel about a family at war with itself, set in ancient Greece, now in paperback. On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. She is led to her death and Agamemnon leads his army into a successful battle. Three years later he returns home and his murderous action has set his entire family on a path of intimate violence. 'Unforgettable' Mary Beard "New York Times

Mit großem Einfühlungsvermögen schildert Colm Toibin das Leben von Henry James: Enttäuscht vom mittelmäßigen Erfolg seiner Romane wendet er sich der Bühne zu. Ein Theaterskandal in London ist die Folge. Henry James verlässt England, geht auf Reisen und lebt in Rom, Venedig und Paris. Ein originelles Buch über die Einsamkeit und Sehnsucht eines Mannes, der Zeit seines Lebens unfähig war, seine Träume von der großen Leidenschaft mit seiner eigen...

* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * Named a Best Book of 2017 by NPR, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, St. Louis Dispatch From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children—"brilliant…gripping…high drama…made tangible and graphic in Tóibín's lush prose" (Booklist, starred review)."I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Cl...

Ierland, eind jaren zestig. Nora Webster, niet de makkelijkste vrouw, is pas weduwe geworden. Ze probeert haar leven in het kleinsteedse Enniscorthyopnieuw gestalte te geven. Niet alleen heeft ze in haar eentje de zorg voor haar vier kinderen, ze moet ook weer gaan werken. Tegen de achtergrond van het conservatieve, katholieke Ierland met zijn strenge sociale controle weet ze zich door middel van vriendschappen en muziek toch te ontworstelen a...

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Ik ben vertrouwd met de geur van de dood, ' zo begint Klytaimnestra haar verhaal. Haar man Agamemnon is jaren geleden met zijn leger naar Troje vertrokken, zij heerst nu over Mycene. Samen met haar minnaar beraamt ze de moord op Agamemnon. Hier vertelt ze waarom. Het huis van de namen geeft een stem aan een van de grootste booswichten uit de literaire geschiedenis. Klytaimnestra is meer dan een wrede moordenares, ze is een rouwende moeder, in ...

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In southeast Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who must leave home to find work in America. As she begins to settle into her new life and to fall in love, news from home calls her back, opening new possibilities that conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.

Named by AudioFile magazine as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2005, this unforgettable audio performance represents the best of what the medium can do. Colm Toibin tells the story of Henry James, the famous novelist born into one of Americas intellectual first families two decades before the Civil War, and who left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. In stunningly resonant prose, Toibin c...

This beautifully written, intensely intimate collection explores a subject of nearly universal experience: the psychological push and pull between a mother and a son. Each story is centered on a transformative moment that alters the delicate balance of power in that relationship and changes the way mother and son perceive one another. With exquisite grace and eloquence, Toibin writes of men and women bound by convention, by unspoken emotions, ...

Colm Tóibín's New York Times bestselling novel—now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s."One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard...