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* OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, GLAMOUR, FRESH AIR, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TIMES (London), THE IRISH TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE OBSERVER, and more * "Stunning." --People * "Dazzling yet devastating...T ib n is simply one of the world's best living literary writers." --The Boston Globe * "Momentous and hugely affecting." --The Wall Street Journal * From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, T ib n's most popular work in twenty years. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis is now forty with two teenage children. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at work an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony's child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis's doorstep. It is what Eilis does--and what she refuses to do--in response to this stunning news that makes T ib n's novel so riveting and suspenseful. Long Island is a gorgeous story "about a woman thrashing against the constraints of fate" (Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air). It is "a wonder, rich with yearning and regret" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis).

From Colm T ib n, "one of the world's best living literary writers" (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of eleven short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America--about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as "his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" (Los Angeles Times), Colm T ib n 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. In "The Journey to Galway," a mother who has learned of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in WWII, travels to Galway to inform his wife and their three now fatherless children. "Sleep," originally published in The New Yorker, 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. T ib n'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. The News from Dublin is an exquisite introduction to T ib n's short fiction for new readers who may have discovered T ib n with the publication of Long Island, and a glorious new collection for longtime fans of this "achingly beautiful writer...with infinite compassion" (The Miami Herald).

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a "not to be missed" (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature. "IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS." So begins Colm T ib n's fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. T ib n survives, but he has entered, as he says, "the age of one ball." The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and '60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of T ib n's novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship, and Nora Webster. T ib n describes his education by priests, several of whom were condemned years later for abuse. He writes about Irish history and literature, and about the long, tragic journey toward legal and social acceptance of homosexuality. In Part Two, T ib n profiles three complex and vexing popes--John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. And in Part Three, he writes about a trio of authors who reckon with religion in their fiction. The final essay, "Alone in Venice," is a gorgeous account of T ib n's journey, at the height of the pandemic, to the beloved city where he has set some of his most dazzling scenes. The streets, canals, churches, and museums were empty. He had them to himself, an experience both haunting and exhilarating. "A tantalizing glimpse into T ib n's full fictional powers," (The Sunday Times, London) A Guest at the Feast is both an intimate encounter with a supremely creative artist and a glorious celebration of writing.

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a "not to be missed" (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature. "IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS." So begins Colm T ib n's fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. T ib n survives, but he has entered, as he says, "the age of one ball." The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and '60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of T ib n's novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship, and Nora Webster. T ib n describes his education by priests, several of whom were condemned years later for abuse. He writes about Irish history and literature, and about the long, tragic journey toward legal and social acceptance of homosexuality. In Part Two, T ib n profiles three complex and vexing popes--John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. And in Part Three, he writes about a trio of authors who reckon with religion in their fiction. The final essay, "Alone in Venice," is a gorgeous account of T ib n's journey, at the height of the pandemic, to the beloved city where he has set some of his most dazzling scenes. The streets, canals, churches, and museums were empty. He had them to himself, an experience both haunting and exhilarating. "A tantalizing glimpse into T ib n's full fictional powers," (The Sunday Times, London) A Guest at the Feast is both an intimate encounter with a supremely creative artist and a glorious celebration of writing.

Colm T ib n's New York Times 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" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s. "One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), 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. Eilis 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. Author "Colm T ib n...is his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" (Los Angeles Times). "Written with mesmerizing power and skill" (The Boston Globe), Brooklyn is a "triumph...One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations" (USA TODAY).

* A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year * Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, The Boston Globe, St. Louis Dispatch From the thrilling imagination of bestselling, award-winning Colm T ib n comes a retelling of the story of Clytemnestra and her children--"brilliant...gripping...high drama...made tangible and graphic in T ib n's lush prose" (Booklist, starred review). "I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city from which her husband King Agamemnon left when he set sail with his army for Troy. Clytemnestra rules Mycenae now, along with her new lover Aegisthus, and together they plot the bloody murder of Agamemnon on the day of his return after nine years at war. Judged, despised, cursed by gods, Clytemnestra reveals the tragic saga that led to these bloody actions: how her husband deceived her eldest daughter Iphigeneia with a promise of marriage to Achilles, only to sacrifice her; how she seduced and collaborated with the prisoner Aegisthus; how Agamemnon came back with a lover himself; and how Clytemnestra finally achieved her vengeance for his stunning betrayal--his quest for victory, greater than his love for his child. House of Names "is a disturbingly contemporary story of a powerful woman caught between the demands of her ambition and the constraints on her gender...Never before has T ib n demonstrated such range," (The Washington Post). He brings a modern sensibility and language to an ancient classic, and gives this extraordinary character new life, so that we not only believe Clytemnestra's thirst for revenge, but applaud it. Told in four parts, this is a fiercely dramatic portrait of a murderess, who will herself be murdered by her own son, Orestes. It is Orestes's story, too: his capture by the forces of his mother's lover Aegisthus, his escape and his exile. And it is the story of the vengeful Electra, who watches over her mother and Aegisthus with cold anger and slow calculation, until, on the return of her brother, she has the fates of both of them in her hands.

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 university and was struggling to free himself from a religious upbringing. He had even considered entering a seminary and was searching for literature that would offer illumination and insight. Inspired by the novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, Tóibín found a writer who would be a lifelong companion and exemplar. From On James BaldwinBaldwin was interested in the hidden and dramatic areas in his own being, and was prepared as a writer to explore difficult truths about his own private life. In his fiction, he had to battle for the right of his protagonists to choose or influence their destinies. He knew about guilt and rage and bitter privacies in a way that few of his White novelist contemporaries did. And this was not simply because he was Black and homosexual; the difference arose from the very nature of his talent, from the texture of his sensibility. “All art,” he wrote, “is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”On James Baldwin is a magnificent contemporary author’s tribute to one of his most consequential literary progenitors.

* OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY TIME MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, WASHINGTON POST, VULTURE, GLAMOUR, FRESH AIR, NPR, THE GUARDIAN, THE ECONOMIST, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, THE TIMES (London), THE IRISH TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE OBSERVER, and more * "Stunning." --People * "Dazzling yet devastating...T ib n is simply one of the world's best living literary writers." --The Boston Globe * "Momentous and hugely affecting." --The Wall Street Journal * From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, T ib n's most popular work in twenty years. Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents, a huge extended family. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis is now forty with two teenage children. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades. One day, when Tony is at work an Irishman comes to the door asking for Eilis by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony's child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis's doorstep. It is what Eilis does--and what she refuses to do--in response to this stunning news that makes T ib n's novel so riveting and suspenseful. Long Island is a gorgeous story "about a woman thrashing against the constraints of fate" (Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air). It is "a wonder, rich with yearning and regret" (Star Tribune, Minneapolis).

From the bestselling author of Brooklyn, Colm Toibin's first collection of poetry explores travel, sexuality, religion and family.

Fünf Menschen versammeln sich um das Bett eines Sterbenden, und in langen Gesprächen kommen geheimgehaltene Dinge zur Sprache. ?Ein ganz und gar nicht hoffnungsloses Familiendrama.? Rheinischer Merkur Eine junge Frau aus Dublin hat gerade ihren Mann mitsamt den beiden kleinen Söhnen in die Ferien verabschiedet und versucht sich an das Alleinsein zu gewöhnen. Da erfährt sie, daß ihr jüngerer Bruder Declan sehr krank ist und sie sehen möchte. Helen hat nicht gewußt, daß ihr Bruder Aids hat, aber nun, da feststeht, daß er sterben wird, setzt sie alles daran, daß er heimkommt in das Haus der Großmutter hoch über dem Meer. Die alte Frau ist zunächst nicht erfreut, zumal sich auch noch zwei Freunde Declans einquartieren, und Helens Mutter hätte ihren Sohn lieber bei sich. Eine Notgemeinschaft entsteht zwischen diesen Menschen aus drei Generationen. Ob es um unterdrückte Sexualität oder verdrängte Wut geht - das Aussprechen von verborgenen Dingen hat eine heilende Wirkung. Um der Liebe zu einem Menschen willen werden verhärtete Fronten aufgebrochen, behutsame Schritte zu einer Annäherung vollzogen, Familienbande auf einmal neu definiert.

Colm Toibin schildert Henry James in seinen mittleren Jahren. Enttäuscht vom mittelmäßigen Erfolg seiner Romane, begibt sich der wohl bedeutendste angloamerikanische Schriftsteller der letzten Jahrhundertwende auf Reisen und lebt in Rom, Venedig und Paris. Ein ebenso tiefgründiges wie originelles Buch über die Einsamkeit und Sehnsucht eines Mannes. Toibin ist in das Leben des ?Meisters? förmlich hineingekrochen, hat das Verschwiegene des Lebens und das nicht gelebte Leben zur Sprache gebracht.

Vpervye na russkom - roman Kolma Tojbina, avtora "Volshebnika" i "Bruklina", kniga - finalist Bukerovskoj premii, laureat Mezhdunarodnoj Dublinskoj premii IMPAC, "izyskannoe osveschenie vnutrennego mira Genri Dzhejmsa" (New York Times). Sovremennyj klassik otdaet dan uvazhenija odnomu iz stolpov amerikanskoj i mirovoj literatury, predteche modernizma. Vydajuschijsja khudozhnik, master tonkogo psikhologicheskogo portreta, pokazan vo vsej svoej ujazvimosti i odinochestve - ot provala postanovki ego pesy "Gaj Domvil" v londonskom teatre Druri-lejn, poka v sosednem teatre publika rukopleschet premere "Kak vazhno byt sereznym" Oskara Uajlda, do vizita v provintsialnyj anglijskij gorodok Raj, gde Dzhejms poselilsja na sklone let, ego brata, filosofa Uiljama Dzhejmsa, i s mnogochislennymi reministsentsijami k kljuchevym epizodam biografii proslavlennogo dobrovolnogo izgnannika, kotoryj predpochel London, Florentsiju i Parizh rodnomu Bostonu... "Negromkij shedevr, rabota neobychajnoj sereznosti i soprichastnosti, raskryvajuschaja nam genija vo vsej ego chelovecheskoj polnote. I napisan etot glubokij roman - ne poboimsja slova - masterski" (New York Observer).

Vpervye na russkom - novejshij roman odnogo iz krupnejshikh britanskikh prozaikov Kolma Tojbina, neodnokratnogo finalista Bukerovskoj premii. "Volshebnik" - eto literaturnaja biografija proslavlennogo romanista Tomasa Manna, avtora "Buddenbrokov" i "Volshebnoj gory", "Smerti v Venetsii" i "Doktora Faustusa", laureata Nobelevskoj premii. Eto semejnaja saga, okhvatyvajuschaja bolshe poluveka; sjuda umestilis i detstvo v patriarkhalnom Ljubeke, i junost v bogemnom Mjunkhene, i semejnoe schaste, i nepronitsaemye tajny vnutrennego mira, i Pervaja mirovaja vojna, i begstvo ot fashistskoj diktatury, i Vtoraja mirovaja vojna, i nachalo vojny kholodnoj... "Volshebnik" - eto ne prosto biografija, a proizvedenie iskusstva, emotsionalnoe podvedenie itogov veka peremen, i v tsentre ego - chelovek, kotoryj pytaetsja ne sgibat spinu, no vechno kolebletsja pod vetrami etikh peremen" (The Times).

Kolm Tojbin - odna iz krupnejshikh figur sovremennoj irlandskoj literatury, tonkij i mnogoobraznyj pisatel, chi knigi neodnokratno popadali v short-list "Bukera" i udostaivalis znachimykh literaturnykh nagrad. Za "Bruklin", tikhuju istoriju molodoj zhenschiny i ee poiskov sebja, gde chuvstva burljat v glubine i vsplyvajut na poverkhnosti lish rjabju, namekom, nedogovorennostju, avtor poluchil Premiju Kosta, a v 2015 godu Dzhon Krauli ekraniziroval etot roman po stsenariju, napisannomu sovmestno Tojbinom i Nikom Khornbi. Geroinja "Bruklina" Ejlish v poiskakh raboty i peremeny uchasti otpravljaetsja iz rodnogo Enniskorti, gde vse tak znakomo i ujutno, v chuzhoj neprivychnyj Nju-Jork. Tam ona muchaetsja ot nostalgii, ischet svoe mesto v novoj strane, vstrechaet ljubov, prinimaet neprostye reshenija i uzhe osvaivaetsja, kogda pechalnye semejnye vesti prizyvajut ee nazad v Irlandiju. Vse immigrantskie istorii na pervyj vzgljad pokhozhi, no nikogda drug druga ne povtorjajut. "Bruklin" - minornaja odisseja, gde net osobykh strastej, no vse propitano chuvstvami, pronzitelnymi i neotvjaznymi, istorija stranstvija odnoj molodoj zhenschiny tuda i obratno, iz Enniskorti v Bruklin i snova v Enniskorti, - v poiskakh sebja, svoej samostojatelnosti, svoego mesta, no v konechnom schete svoego doma, otkuda nevozmozhno ubezhat i kuda nevozmozhno vernutsja.

Novejshij roman odnogo iz krupnejshikh britanskikh prozaikov Kolma Tojbina, neodnokratnogo finalista Bukerovskoj premii. "Volshebnik" - eto literaturnaja biografija proslavlennogo romanista Tomasa Manna, avtora "Buddenbrokov" i "Volshebnoj gory", "Smerti v Venetsii" i "Doktora Faustusa", laureata Nobelevskoj premii. Eto semejnaja saga, okhvatyvajuschaja bolshe poluveka; sjuda umestilis i detstvo v patriarkhalnom Ljubeke, i junost v bogemnom Mjunkhene, i semejnoe schaste, i nepronitsaemye tajny vnutrennego mira, i Pervaja mirovaja vojna, i begstvo ot fashistskoj diktatury, i Vtoraja mirovaja vojna, i nachalo vojny kholodnoj... "Volshebnik" - eto ne prosto biografija, a proizvedenie iskusstva, emotsionalnoe podvedenie itogov veka peremen, i v tsentre ego - chelovek, kotoryj pytaetsja ne sgibat spinu, no vechno kolebletsja pod vetrami etikh peremen" (The Times).

Kolm Tojbin - odna iz krupnejshikh figur sovremennoj irlandskoj literatury, tonkij i mnogoobraznyj pisatel, chi knigi neodnokratno popadali v short-list "Bukera" i udostaivalis znachimykh literaturnykh nagrad. Za "Bruklin", tikhuju istoriju molodoj zhenschiny i ee poiskov sebja, gde chuvstva burljat v glubine i vsplyvajut na poverkhnost lish rjabju, namekom, nedogovorennostju, avtor poluchil Premiju Kosta, a v 2015 godu Dzhon Krauli ekraniziroval etot roman po stsenariju, napisannomu sovmestno Tojbinom i Nikom Khornbi. Geroinja "Bruklina" Ejlish v poiskakh raboty i peremeny uchasti otpravljaetsja iz rodnogo Enniskorti, gde vse tak znakomo i ujutno, v chuzhoj, neprivychnyj Nju-Jork. Tam ona muchaetsja ot nostalgii, ischet svoe mesto v novoj strane, vstrechaet ljubov, prinimaet neprostye reshenija i uzhe osvaivaetsja, kogda pechalnye semejnye vesti prizyvajut ee nazad v Irlandiju. Vse immigrantskie istorii na pervyj vzgljad pokhozhi, no nikogda drug druga ne povtorjajut. "Bruklin" - minornaja odisseja, gde net osobykh strastej, no vse propitano chuvstvami, pronzitelnymi i neotvjaznymi, istorija stranstvija odnoj molodoj zhenschiny tuda i obratno, iz Enniskorti v Bruklin i snova v Enniskorti, - v poiskakh sebja, svoej samostojatelnosti, svoego mesta, no v konechnom schete svoego doma, otkuda nevozmozhno ubezhat i kuda nevozmozhno vernutsja.

Vpervye na russkom - svezhajshij roman sovremennogo klassika Kolma Tojbina, titana irlandskoj i mirovoj literatury, laureata mnogikh prestizhnykh premij, neodnokratnogo finalista Bukera, avtora takikh mezhdunarodnykh bestsellerov, kak "Volshebnik" i "Master". Pjatnadtsat let nazad ego roman "Bruklin" - tikhaja odisseja molodoj irlandki Ejlish Lejsi, otpravivshejsja iz rodnogo Enniskorti v Nju-Jork, - pokoril serdtsa chitatelej vsego mira, a ekranizatsija "Bruklina", postavlennaja Dzhonom Krauli po stsenariju samogo Tojbina i Nika Khornbi, poluchila tri "Oskara". No istorija Ejlish nikak ne otpuskala Tojbina - i vot, pri vsej svoej neljubvi k sikvelam ("Bylo by katastrofoj, esli by "Uliss" imel prodolzhenie..."), on vernulsja k poljubivshejsja mnogim geroine. Itak, posle sobytij "Bruklina" proshlo chetvert veka. Ejlish zamuzhem za italjantsem Toni Fiorello, u nikh dvoe detej-podrostkov; oni zhivut na Long-Ajlende chastju mnogochislennogo klana, rjadom s semjami bratev Toni i ego roditeljami. Odnazhdy na poroge u nee pojavljaetsja neznakomyj irlandets i zajavljaet, chto zhena ego beremenna ot Toni i chto chuzhogo rebenka on doma ne ostavit, a prineset ego seme Fiorello pod dver - pust Toni s Ejlish sami razbirajutsja. To, na chto Ejlish reshitsja - i na chto ne reshitsja, - zastavit "Long-Ajlend" zvenet "energiej neprozhitykh zhiznej, podavlennykh chuvstv..." (York Press).Perevod s anglijskogo - Marina Klevetenko

From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland's greatest writers--Oscar Wilde's father, William Butler Yeats's father, and James Joyce's father--"Thrilling, wise, and resonant, this book aptly unites T ib n's novelistic gifts for psychology and emotional nuance with his talents as a reader and critic, in incomparably elegant prose" (The New York Times Book Review). Colm T ib n begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university and where three Irish literary giants came of age. Oscar Wilde, writing about his relationship with his father stated: "Whenever there is hatred between two people there is bond or brotherhood of some kind...you loathed each other not because you were so different but because you were so alike." W.B. Yeats wrote of his father, a painter: "It is this infirmity of will which has prevented him from finishing his pictures. The qualities I think necessary to success in art or life seemed to him egotism." James's father was perhaps the most quintessentially Irish, widely loved, garrulous, a singer, and drinker with a volatile temper, who drove his son from Ireland. "An entertaining and revelatory book about the vexed relationships between these three pairs of difficult fathers and their difficult sons" (The Wall Street Journal), Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know illustrates the surprising ways these fathers surface in the work of their sons. "As charming as they are] illuminating, these stories of fathers and sons provide a singular look at an extraordi-nary confluence of genius" (Bookpage). T ib n recounts the resistance to English cultural domination, the birth of modern Irish cultural identity, and the extraordinary contributions of these complex and masterful authors. "This immersive book holds literary scholarship to be a heartfelt, heavenly pursuit" (The Washington Post).