Brooklyn
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Saoirse Ronan
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By:
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Colm Toibin
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Winner of the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Tóibín's internationally bestselling novel is a story of devastating emotional power.
At the centre of Colm Tóibín's internationally celebrated novel is Eilis Lacey, one among many of her generation who has come of age in 1950s Ireland but cannot find work at home. When she receives a job offer in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country behind, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation.
Slowly, however, the pain of parting and a longing for home are buried beneath the rhythms of her new life—until she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, tragic news summons her back to Ireland, where she unexpectedly finds herself facing an impossible decision.
©2009 Colm Toibin (P)2025 McClelland & StewartCritic reviews
A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
Longlisted for the Booker Prize
Winner of the Costa Book Award
“Every once in a while a book appears to remind us why we love fiction. . . . [Brooklyn is] an enormously absorbing, nuanced read that steeps us in its character’s world—and gradually surprises us with its moral resonance. . . . [Brooklyn] soars in its deeply effective final section."—San Francisco Chronicle
“Quietly majestic. . . . Tóibín can conjure for us [Eilis Lacey’s] trajectories both glimpsed and lived, in their satisfactions and their sadness . . . . A meaningful accomplishment indeed.”—New York Review of Books
"Tóibín is himself a master . . . of a kind of deep gentleness, even as the darkness falls on his characters. . . . Here is a writer who quietly watches and reports, shocked at nothing, missing nothing."—Globe and Mail