The Empty Family : Stories

Toibin, Colm

ISBN 10: 0670918172 / ISBN 13: 9780670918171

Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Empty Family : Stories
• Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670918172
• ISBN 13: 9780670918171
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

'I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.'

In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history.

From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence each of Tóibín's stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.

About the Author

Colm Tóibín 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.