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On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel "Brooklyn," Colm Toibin returns with a stunning collection of stories now available in paperback a book that s both a perfect introduction to Toibin and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure ( "The Seattle Times" ). Critics praised "Brooklyn" as a beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s. In "The Empty Family," Toibin has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters people linked by love, loneliness, desire the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart ( "The Observer," UK). In the breathtaking long story The Street, Toibin imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In Two Women, an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. Silence is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party. Reviewed on the front page of "The New York Times Book Review," "The Empty Family" will further cement Toibin s status as his generation s most gifted writer of love s complicated, contradictory power ( "Los Angeles Times" )."

In Love in a Dark Time, Colm Tóibín looks at the life and work of some of the greatest and most influential artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His subjects range from figures such as Oscar Wilde, born in the 1850s, to Pedro Almodóvar, born nearly a hundred years later. Tóibín studies how a changing world impacted on the lives of people who, on the whole, kept their homosexuality hidden, and reveals that the laws of desire changed everything for them, both in their private lives and in the spirit of their work.

This unique volume, comprising Colm Tóibín's acclaimed short text and a linked collection of key documents put together by one of Ireland's leading younger historians, offers a many-sided view of one's of history's most poignant and far-reaching catastrophes. This book will allow the reader to understand the complex way in which the fragmentary past is both available to us ... and distant from us.' We get those insights from Tóibín's short history and from a rich collection of documents -- government papers, recipes, journalism, letters, statistics, personal statements, all linked so the book can be read as a whole.

Set in Argentina in the 1980s, this novel follows the progress of a lonely young man trying to live openly with his homosexuality. His coming out mirrors the country's emergence from the repressive rule of the Generals to tentative new hope under the early Menem government.

The first novel from the 1991 "Irish Times"/Aer Lingus Literature prizewinner. In 1950s fascist Spain, Katherine is living in self-exile from her husband and son in Ireland. She meets Miguel and they settle in the Pyrenees, but when she returns to Ireland she finds her husband has wed again.