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Colm Toibin focuses on reluctant exile in “Brooklyn”
By Noreen Bowden | May 5, 2009
Colm Toibin’s new novel, “Brooklyn”, garnered substantial press over the weekend. The author’s sixth novel is about a reluctant emigrant from Enniscorthy who moves to the New York borough knowing “the rest of her life would be a struggle with the unfamiliar”. The book reflects on the pangs of homesickness and depicts the struggles of the main character, Eilis as she adapts to a new land fraught with its own struggles and eventually falls in love. Just as she begins to settle in, Eilis is called home by a family tragedy and must return to Enniscorthy.
The book is receiving widespread critical acclailm.
Related web pages:
- New York Times Magazine: His Irish Diaspora
- New York Times Book Review: ‘Brooklyn,’ by Colm Toibin: The Reluctant Emigrant
- Irish Independent: No place like Colm
- Irish Independent: Delicate portrait of a soul triumphs in Toibin’s tale
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