Long Island

The sequel to the prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn . A novel of enormous wit and profound emotional resonance from one of the world''s finest writers. In Colm Toibin''s masterful new novel, we are reunited with Eilis Lacey, the heroine of Brooklyn , twenty years on, in the 1970s, living with her husband, Tony Fiorello, and her children in a house in Long Island, rather too close to her Fiorello in-laws. A shocking piece of news propels Eilis back to Ireland, to a world she thought she had long left behind and to ways of living, and loving, she thought she had lost. PRAISE FOR BROOKLYN ''With this elating and humane novel, Colm Toibin has produced a masterwork'' - The Sunday Times ''The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time'' - Zoe Heller, The Guardian , Books of the Year ''A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life'' - Ali Smith, TLS , Books of the Year ''Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted . . . a novel of magnificent accomplishment'' - Peter Kemp, The Sunday Times , Novel of the Year

Autorentext
Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of ten previous novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022-2024. Long Island is his eleventh novel.

Zusammenfassung
A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2024, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn