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What is Brooklyn : A Novel about?

Colm Tóibín’s tender story of deep love and devastating loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between two sides of an ocean, personal freedom and duty. In a small town in the southeast of Ireland in the 1950s, work is hard to find. Eilis Lacey escapes to forge a new life for herself in Brooklyn, America. Young, homesick and alone, she gradually buries the pain of parting to find a sort of happiness. But when tragic news summons her back to Ireland, she finds herself facing a terrible choice: between love and happiness in the land where she belongs and the promises she must keep on the far side of the ocean."America is peopled, for the most part, by the descendants of immigrants who had the resolve, the daring and the detachment to leave behind the places and people they had formerly known. But Eilis isn’t such a person; detachment isn’t part of her makeup. It has been thrust on her by women who are as attached to home and family as she is... In tracking the experience, at the remove of half a century, of a girl as unsophisticated and simple as Eilis — a girl who permits herself no extremes of temperament, who accords herself no right to self-assertion — Tóibín exercises sustained

Who reads Brooklyn : A Novel?

Author

Colm Tóibín

Publisher

Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781501106477

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, History, Romance

Rating

3.9 / 5 (9,932 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14