Colm Tóibín

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 home. Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland and reach out for a new life. Determined to become an artist, she flees to Spain, where she meets Miguel, a passionate man who has fought for his own freedoms. They retreat to the quiet intensity of the mountains and begin to build a life together. But as Miguel’s past catches up with him, Katherine too is forced to re-examine her relationships: with her lover, her painting and the homeland she only thought she knew. . .The South is the book that introduced readers to the astonishing gifts of Colm Tóibín, winning the Irish Times First Fiction Award in 1991.'An imaginative, deeply felt and evocative tale' The Sunday Times'Colm Tóibín writes prose of a heartbreaking beauty' Hilary MantelPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.Read Long Island, the Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Colm Tóibín's beloved Brooklyn, in paperback now.

Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, Frank Auerbach: The Charcoal Heads presents a remarkable series of hauntingly beautiful largescale drawings by the artist. The catalogue includes a new piece of writing on one of the drawings from critically acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. This catalogue explores one of Frank Auerbach’s most remarkable bodies of work – a series of large-scale portrait heads made in charcoal, produced during his early years as a young artist in postwar London. Auerbach (b. 1931) spent months on each drawing, working and reworking them during numerous sessions with his sitters. This prolonged and vigorous process of creation is evident in the finished drawings, which are richly textured and layered. Auerbach would sometimes even break through the paper and patch it up before carrying on. His heads thus emerge from the darkness of the charcoal with burning vitality, born of an artistic as well as a physical struggle with the medium. The process of repeated creation and destruction, of which these images bear the visible scars, speaks profoundly of their times, as people rebuilt their lives after the ruination and upending of the war. The exhibition will be the first time Auerbach’s extraordinary drawings, made in the 1950s and early 1960s, have been brought together as a comprehensive group. They will be shown together with a selection of paintings he made of the same sitters; for the artist, painting and drawing have always been deeply entwined. The accompanying catalogue – by Deputy Head of The Courtauld Gallery, Barnaby Wright, and with an essay by one of the greatest contemporary voices in the English language, Colm Tóibín – is the first publication to explore in depth this magnificent series. Tóibín spent several hours one afternoon in front of Auerbach’s Self-Portrait (1958), which features on the front cover of the book, looking closely and taking notes. His essay is an account of his experience and offers new insights into the work and the nature of self-portaiture.

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).

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.

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.

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.

"Den bästa roman jag läst på länge" Norrbottens-Kuriren"Naket och ömsint porträtt" Skånska DagbladetThomas Mann växer upp i en by på den tyska landsbygden. Fadern är konservativ och auktoritär, modern undflyende och oberäknelig. Den lille pojken lär sig tidigt att aldrig låta någon få veta vad han verkligen känner: i hemlighet ägnar han sig åt konst och litteratur, i hemlighet åtrår han pojkar mer än flickor.När han möter Katia förändras allt. Hon har vuxit upp i en rik judisk familj där konsten står i centrum. Thomas och Katia gifter sig, skaffar sex barn, och med tiden blir Thomas Mann en uppburen författare som belönas med Nobelpriset i litteratur. Ändå förblir han alltid en person som alla känner till men som ingen någonsin får lära känna. Så går världen i kras. Hitler griper makten, snart står hela världen i brand och familjen måste lämna allt bakom sig.Colm Tóibín har skrivit en levande roman om en av litteraturvärldens största gåtor. Thomas Mann står bakom flera av förra århundradets mest hyllade romaner samtidigt som hans personliga kamp präglade dagböckerna och hans familjeroll. Varför denna förljugenhet till ett sådant högt pris? Var det skenhelighet eller något som gagnade hans litterära inblick? Eller kanske rädsla? Bakom masken är vi alla till sist bara människor.

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.

Dazhe esli ves mir pokhozh na absurd, khoroshaja kniga ne dast vam sojti s uma. Ljudi rasskazyvajut istorii s samogo nachala vremen. Rasskazyvajut o tom, chto videli i o chem slyshali. Rasskazyvajut o tom, chto bylo i chto moglo by byt. Rasskazyvajut, chtoby otvlechsja, skorotat vremja ili perezhit neprostye vremena. Inogda takie istorii prevraschajutsja v khroniki, letopisi, pamjatniki otdelnym periodam i epokham. Tak pojavilis "Skazki tysjachi i odnoj nochi", "Kenterberijskie rasskazy" i "Dekameron" Bokkachcho. "Novyj Dekameron" - eto tozhe svoeobraznyj pamjatnik epokhe, kotoraja sovershenno tochno vojdet v istoriju. Redaktory The New York Times Magazine sobrali 29 novell, esse, skazok, krokhotnykh zarisovok i razvernutykh rassuzhdenij. V nikh samye izvestnye sovremennye pisateli popytalis zapechatlet i osmyslit sobytija, okhvativshie kazhdyj ugolok mira. V sbornik voshli novelly Margaret Etvud, Kolma Tojbina, Lejly Slimani, Rejchel Kushner, Etgara Kereta, Devida Mitchella, Mony Avad i mnogikh drugikh.

Nombrado Mejor Libro del A o por The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal. El mago comienza en una ciudad provinciana de Alemania a inicios del siglo XX, donde un ni o, Thomas Mann, crece junto a un padre conservador, atado por el decoro, y una madre brasile a, seductora e impredecible. El joven Mann le oculta a su padre sus aspiraciones art sticas y a todos los dem s sus deseos homosexuales. Est encantado con una de las familias jud as m s ricas y cultas de M nich, y se casa con la hija, Katia. Tienen seis hijos. En unas vacaciones por Italia, suspira por un muchacho que ve en una playa y escribe la historia Muerte en Venecia. Se convierte en el novelista m s exitoso de su tiempo, ganador del Premio Nobel de literatura; un hombre p blico cuya vida privada permanece en secreto. Se espera que encabece la condena hacia de Hitler, a quien subestima. Su hija mayor y su hijo, l deres del bohemianismo y el movimiento antinazi, comparten amantes. l huye de Alemania hacia Suiza, Francia y, finalmente, Estados Unidos, radicando primero en Princeton y m s tarde en Los ngeles. ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONColm T ib n's new novel opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles. The Magician is an intimate, astonishingly complex portrait of Mann, his magnificent and complex wife Katia, and the times in which they lived--the first world war, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile.

Esta novela pica narra la historia de un hombre c lebre, cuya vida interior, suspicaz y reservada, sufri siempre intensas contradicciones: Thomas Mann. Pas de un entusiasmado patriotismo a forjar una relaci n compleja con su tierra natal cuando, al llegar Hitler al poder, anticip los horrores del nazismo. Escondi su homosexualidad y tuvo seis hijos con su esposa, una mujer fascinante junto a la cual luch por mantener a la familia a salvo y padeci los estragos del suicidio de hermanos e hijos. Escribi algunas de las mejores obras de la literatura europea y gan el Premio Nobel, pero nunca volvi al pa s que las inspir . En El mago, Colm T ib n capta el profundo conflicto personal de una vida p blica y logra crear un retrato ntimo del convulso siglo XX.

A New York Times Notable Book, Critic's Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek ​From one of today's most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War that is "a feat of literary sorcery in its own right" (Oprah Daily). The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles. In this "exquisitely sensitive" (The Wall Street Journal) novel, T ib n has crafted "a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires, his family, and the tumultuous times they endure" (Time), and "you'll find yourself savoring every page" (Vogue).

Året är 1895 och Henry James nya pjäs gör dunderfiasko i London samtidigt som Oscar Wildes senaste går för fulla hus på teatern bredvid. James bestämmer sig omedelbart för att fly staden och slicka såren. I sin självvalda exil börjar han att minnas tillbaka på sitt liv: systerns tragiska död som länge plågade honom, hur han höll sig undan det amerikanska inbördeskriget, de hemska minnena av sårade och döda soldater, uppväxten i New England och brodern som i familjen alltid hölls före honom intellektuellt och socialt.Men ett stort glädjeämne för honom var den mycket märkliga och hemliga vänskapen med författaren Constance Fenimore Woolson, hur de brevväxlade, hyrde våningarna intill varandra i Venedig och bokade in sig på samma pensionat i England. Så nås han plötsligt av ett telegram som berättar att Constance helt oväntat har tagit sitt liv genom att slänga sig ut från sitt lägenhetsfönster i Venedig.Henry James kom att under sitt liv kallas för "Mästaren". Skälet var hans skarpa blick för mänskliga relationer, vilket även kännetecknar hans böcker. Colm Tóibín fångar i sin roman - som redan kort efter sin första publicering utropades till klassiker - en man som privat plågades av sin ensamhet samtidigt som han i sin sociala verksamhet kunde njuta av litterära framgångar och gärna frotterade sig med alla dåtidens stora författare.Med ett nyskrivet förord av Klas Östergren."Mästaren är underbart rik, ett verkligt kraftprov i den ofta misslyckade genren ´roman om känd, verklig person´ ... Den ger en enastående ingång till ett av de stora författarskapen i modern tid. Den är i sig själv ett litet mästerverk." SvD

A New York Times Notable Book, Critic's Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek ​From one of today's most brilliant and beloved novelists, a dazzling, epic family saga set across a half-century spanning World War I, the rise of Hitler, World War II, and the Cold War that is "a feat of literary sorcery in its own right" (Oprah Daily). The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his father and his homosexual desires from everyone. He is infatuated with one of the richest, most cultured Jewish families in Munich, and marries the daughter Katia. They have six children. On a holiday in Italy, he longs for a boy he sees on a beach and writes the story Death in Venice. He is the most successful novelist of his time, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, a public man whose private life remains secret. He is expected to lead the condemnation of Hitler, whom he underestimates. His oldest daughter and son, leaders of Bohemianism and of the anti-Nazi movement, share lovers. He flees Germany for Switzerland, France and, ultimately, America, living first in Princeton and then in Los Angeles. In this "exquisitely sensitive" (The Wall Street Journal) novel, T ib n has crafted "a complex but empathetic portrayal of a writer in a lifelong battle against his innermost desires, his family, and the tumultuous times they endure" (Time), and "you'll find yourself savoring every page" (Vogue).

From the New York Times best-selling author of Brooklyn, Colm T ib n's first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion, and belonging through a modern lens Fans of Colm T ib n's novels, including The Magician, The Master, and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter T ib n in verse. Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events as T ib n examines a wide range of subjects--politics, queer love, reflections on literary and artistic greats, living through COVID, and facing mortality. The poems reflect a life well-traveled and well-lived; from growing up in the town of Enniscorthy, wandering the streets of Dublin, and crossing the bridges of Venice to visiting the White House, readers will travel through familiar locations and new destinations through T ib n's unique lens. Within this rich collection of poems written over the course of several decades, shot through with keen observation, emotion, and humor, T ib n offers us lines and verses to provoke, ponder, and cherish.

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