{"title":"Colm Toibin","description":"Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster,  winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022-2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature.","products":[{"product_id":"brooklyn-paperback","title":"Brooklyn - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eColm Tóibín's \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling novel--also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture--is \"a moving, deeply satisfying read\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature\" (\u003ci\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAuthor \"Colm Tóibín...is his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e). \"Written with mesmerizing power and skill\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e is a \"triumph...One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations\" (\u003ci\u003eUSA TODAY\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101558444255,"sku":"9781501106477","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/RjgrWEhTdzJLRDRVS1VyQkVCVXNLQT09.webp?v=1781071721"},{"product_id":"the-news-from-dublin-stories-hardcover","title":"The News from Dublin: Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Colm Tóibín, \"one of the world's best living literary writers\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America--about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCelebrated as \"his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"The Journey to Galway,\" a mother who has learned of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in World War I, travels to Galway to inform his wife and their three now fatherless children. \"Sleep,\" originally published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, explores the rift between two lovers as one of them cannot reckon with his grief and fear after the death of his brother. Death, again, is a central character in the title story, \"The News from Dublin,\" as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin to try to save his younger brother who is dying of tuberculosis. Maurice must petition the health minister for access to a new experimental drug, and this is the only hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTóibín's stories are rich with the complexities of family dynamics, the haunting pull of the past, and the quiet revelations that define our lives. His characters, whether navigating the aftermath of war, or forbidden love, or the desires of a girl in Catalan, or the quiet struggles mundane life, are rendered with illuminating, unforgettable empathy and insight. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNews from Dublin \u003c\/i\u003eis an exquisite introduction to Tóibín's short fiction for new readers who may have discovered Tóibín with the publication of \u003ci\u003eLong Island\u003c\/i\u003e, and a glorious new collection for longtime fans of this \"achingly beautiful writer...with infinite compassion\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101890973919,"sku":"9781476785141","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yDgkxb9cBr9781476785141.webp?v=1781075836"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/colm-toibin.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}