Colm Toibin - Böcker

"Den bästa roman jag läst på länge" Norrbottens-Kuriren "Naket och ömsint porträtt" Skånska Dagbladet Thomas Mann växer upp i en by på den tyska landsbygden. Fadern är konservativ och auktoritär, modern undflyende och oberäknelig. Den lille pojken...

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Colm Tóibíns kärleksroman Brooklyn som även har blivit en flerfaldigt Oscarsnominerad film med Saoirse Ronan i huvudrollen. Den unga Eilis Lacey växer upp på Irland under de svåra åren efter andra världskriget. En dag får hon ett erbjudande av en ...

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Den efterlängtade fortsättningen på Brooklyn - Colm Tóibíns stora romansuccé som blev Oscarsbelönad film. Eilis Lacey lämnade som ung Irland för USA. Året är nu 1976 och det har nu gått tjugo år sedan hon gifte sig med rörmokaren Tony Fiorello, va...

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A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow-up, Long Island. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many y...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2022 From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and fa...

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The love story of the century. The instant Sunday Times bestseller and the sequel to Brooklyn. Long Island by Colm Tóibín is an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love tha...

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...

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Long Island is Colm Tóibín's masterpiece: a stunning novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and reignite a love once thought lost forever. The sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn. A Book of the Year in The Times,...

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No book since Mrs Shelley's Frankenstein, or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror - Poe is nowhere..."-Charlotte Stoker (Mother of Bram Stoker). Originally published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has spawned count...

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A modern classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my...

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An unforgettable story about loss and new love from Colm Tóibín, the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island. 'The most striking example of Tóibín's emotional control . . . [An] eloquent expression of the bond between a mother and a son' - ...

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Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín is a powerful and moving novel about sex, death, and a man who, as the Falklands War is fought and lost, finds his own way to emerge into the world. 'Beautiful . . ....

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Part travelogue, part reportage, part autobiography, The Sign of the Cross is the story of Colm Tóibín's religious pilgrimage across Europe. Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Tóibín made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him int...

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Kauan kaivattua jatkoa Brooklynille! Colm Tóibínin rakastetuimman sankarittaren tarina jatkuu. Long Island on herkkävireinen romaani salaisuuksista, kaipuusta ja rakkaudesta. On kulunut kaksi vuosikymmentä, ja Brooklynistä lähdön jälkeen Eilis ja ...

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Colm Tóibíns kärleksroman Brooklyn som även har blivit en flerfaldigt Oscarsnominerad film med Saoirse Ronan i huvudrollen. Den unga Eilis Lacey växer upp på Irland under de svåra åren efter andra världskriget. En dag får hon ett erbjudande av en ...

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* * * Shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Novel Awards and the 2015 Folio Prize * * * Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town,...

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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in Penguin Classics, edited and introduced by Colm Tóibín. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most re...

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Colm Tóibín's personal account of encountering James Baldwin's work, published in Baldwin's centenary year. ¿ Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish un...

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Set in Ireland in the 1990s, Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship tells the story of the Devereux family, and reveals the intense connection between grandmother, mother and daughter. Helen's beloved brother Decl...

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THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Unforgettable' Mary Beard 'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her ...

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A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow-up, Long Island. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many y...

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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile. 'A triumph' - The Observer 'A masterly achievement' - The Independent In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the op...

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Colm Tóibín's Homage to Barcelona celebrates one of Europe's greatest cities - a cosmopolitan hub of vibrant architecture, art, culture and nightlife. It moves from the story of the city's founding and its huge expansion in the nineteenth century ...

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Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Th...

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Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Th...

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A devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. Fall in love with Brooklyn ahead of its bestselling follow-up, Long Island. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many y...

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From Colm Tóibín comes New Ways to Kill Your Mother, a fabulously entertaining book about writers and their families. In this wonderfully entertaining and enlightening collection, Colm Tóibín not only explores the often tense relationship between ...

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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. 'I imagined lamplight, ...

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