Colm Tóibín

Part travelogue, part reportage, part autobiography, The Sign of the Cross is the story of Colm Tóibín's religious pilgrimage across Europe. Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Tóibín made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He then set down his impressions in The Sign of the Cross, a beautifully written book filled with personal detail set within its historical context. Now part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the very best of modern literature.

A compelling portrait of a beloved poet from one of today's most acclaimed novelistsIn this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences—the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experiences of loss and exile resonate with his own. What emerges is a compelling double portrait that will intrigue readers interested in both Bishop and Tóibín. For Tóibín, the secret of Bishop's emotional power is in what she leaves unsaid. Exploring Bishop’s famous attention to detail, Tóibín describes how Bishop is able to convey great emotion indirectly, through precise descriptions of particular settings, objects, and events. He examines how Bishop’s attachment to the Nova Scotia of her childhood, despite her later life in Key West and Brazil, is related to her early loss of her parents—and how this connection finds echoes in Tóibín’s life as an Irish writer who has lived in Barcelona, New York, and elsewhere. Beautifully written and skillfully blending biography, literary appreciation, and descriptions of Tóibín’s travels to Bishop’s Nova Scotia, Key West, and Brazil, On Elizabeth Bishop provides a fresh and memorable look at a beloved poet even as it gives us a window into the mind of one of today’s most acclaimed novelists.

* 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).

Den efterlängtade fortsättningen på Brooklyn – Colm Tóibíns stora romansuccé som blev Oscarsbelönad film. Eilis Lacey lämnade som ung Irland för USA. Året är nu 1976 och det har nu gått tjugo år sedan hon gifte sig med rörmokaren Tony Fiorello, vars stora, bullriga och intensiva italiensk-amerikanska familj ständigt finns närvarande i deras liv i Lindenhurst, Long Island. På många sätt lever de ett perfekt liv, präglat av en europeiskt förflutet. Ibland drabbas de av en längtan tillbaka till det gamla landet, men oftast känner de sig som en del av de amerikanska drömmen. Det är i det nya landet de har byggt upp sin familj och sin framtid, deras barn är i tonåren, allt är precis så som det ska vara. Men en dag förändras allt. Eilis sitter hemma och går igenom bokföringen när det knackar på dörren. En man hälsar vänligt och låter sedan meddela att hans fru är gravid med Tonys barn och när barnet föds kommer han omedelbart att lämna det på Eilis tröskel för henne att ta hand om. Long Island är en omvälvande roman om löften, kärlek och ouppfylld längtan, skriven av en av vår tids mest uppburna berättare.” Det är en mästerlig roman full av längtan och samvetskval. Det är en berättelse om hur älskande kan finna vägen tillbaka till sin kärlek, om hur älskande kan tvingas till kompromisser, och om den trygghet som kan infinna sig sent i livet. Romanen är otroligt drabbande och samtidigt återhållsam. Det kändes vemodigt att lägga den ifrån sig.” Douglas Stuart

Kauan kaivattua jatkoa Brooklynille! Colm Tóibínin rakastetuimman sankarittaren tarina jatkuu. Long Island on herkkävireinen romaani salaisuuksista, kaipuusta ja rakkaudesta. On kulunut kaksi vuosikymmentä, ja Brooklynistä lähdön jälkeen Eilis ja Tony lapsineen ovat asettuneet Long Islandille. Vaikka Irlanti on lähempänä Eilisin sydäntä kuin uusi kotimaa, hän ei ole palannut synnyinseuduilleen koko tänä aikana. Kaikki kuitenkin muuttuu, kun muuan irlantilaismies koputtaa Eilisin oveen. Odottamattomien uutisten myötä hänen ajatuksensa kääntyvät takaisin tuttuihin maisemiin ja ihmisiin. Oliko Tony aikoinaan oikea valinta? Onko enää mahdollista raivata uutta polkua tai sytyttää uudelleen rakkauden kipinä, jonka luuli jo kerran sammuneen? Irlantilainen Colm Tóibín (s. 1955) on kirjoittanut romaaneja, novelleja, esseitä, näytelmiä ja lehtiartikkeleita. Hänen teoksiaan on käännetty yli 30 kielelle ja hän on saanut niistä useita kirjallisuuspalkintoja. Tóibín on ollut kahdesti Booker-ehdokkaana, ja romaanista Brooklyn hän sai Costa-palkinnon.

Uuden elämän kynnyksellä BrooklynissäBrooklyn kuvaa maahanmuuttajan tuntoja hienovaraisen oivaltavasti. Täydellisen kaunis romaani säilyy mielessä pitkään. Eilis Lacey joutuu monien irlantilaistyttöjen tavoin muuttamaan paremman elämän toivossa Amerikkaan. Uudessa maassa Eilis potee koti-ikävää ja vierauden tunnetta, vaikka hänellä on töitä tavaratalon myyjättärenä ja vuokrahuone irlantilaisen rouva Kehoen luona. Tansseissa hän tapaa italialaistaustaisen Tonyn, ja tunteet heidän välillään syvenevät. Juuri kun elämä alkaa asettua uomiinsa, kotoa Irlannista tulee pysäyttävä viesti. Eilis joutuu palaamaan Irlantiin ja tekemään elämänsä tärkeimmän ratkaisun. Irlantilainen Colm Tóibín (s. 1955) on kirjoittanut romaaneja, novelleja, esseitä, näytelmiä ja lehtiartikkeleita. Hänen teoksiaan on käännetty yli 30 kielelle ja hän on saanut niistä useita kirjallisuuspalkintoja. Tóibín on ollut kahdesti Booker-ehdokkaana ja romaanista Brooklyn hän sai vuoden 2009 Costa-palkinnon.

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

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.

Colm Tóibíns kärleksroman Brooklyn som även har blivit en flerfaldigt Oscarsnominerad film med Saoirse Ronan i huvudrollen. Den unga Eilis Lacey växer upp på Irland under de svåra åren efter andra världskriget. En dag får hon ett erbjudande av en irländsk präst från Brooklyn, New York. Han säger sig vara villig att hjälpa henne att emigrera till Amerika. Den första tiden i nya hemlandet sätter Eilis på hårda prov, men med tiden lyckas hon få arbete i ett varuhus på Fulton Street – och när hon minst anar det finner hon även kärleken i Tony, som älskar Dodgers och sin stora italienska familj. Med stort tålamod och stora doser charm lyckas han sakta vinna hennes hjärta, men så nås Eilis av dåliga nyheter från Irland. I ett slag hotas allt som hon har lyckats åstadkomma i sitt nya hemland.” Colm Tóibín är sin generations mest begåvade författare av kärlekens komplicerade, motsägelsefulla kraft" (Los Angeles Times)." Skriven med hypnotiserande kraft och skicklighet" (The Boston Globe)”Brooklyn är en triumf. En av de där magiska romanerna som smyger sig på läsaren och fångar fantasin i flykten." (USA TODAY).

Det er 1976, og irskfødte Eilis Lacey har boet i USA i tyve år sammen med sin mand Tony og deres to teenagebørn. De bor på Long Island, tæt på Tonys store italienske familie. Da Tony bringer et uægte barn ind i familien, beslutter Eilis sig for at tage hjem til Irland for første gang, siden hun rejste. I Dublin møder hun sin ungdoms store kærlighed Jim, et møde, som tvinger Eilis til at tage stilling til sit liv. Long Island er et portræt af en kvinde, kærlighed og svære livsvalg, skrevet med intensitet og stor psykologisk indsigt. Long Island er en selvstændig opfølgning til Brooklyn. Om forfatteren: Colm Tóibín (f. 1955) er en af vor tids vigtigste irske forfattere. Han bor i Dublin og New York, hvor han underviser på Columbia University. Han har modtaget adskillige litterære priser, bl.a. IMPAC Award og været shortlistet til Booker Prize tre gange.

Selecci n del Club de Lectura de Oprah. Barnes & Noble Mejores libros del 2024 (hasta ahora) / Ficci n literaria Los 100 mejores libros del 2024 de Time Magazine «T IB N EN SU MEJOR VERSI N . THE TIMES La emocionante continuaci n de Brooklyn, ganadora del Premio Costa Book, mejor libro del a o seg n The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times y The Observer, con m s de un mill n de lectores y llevada magistralmente al cine. Es la primavera de 1976, y han pasado veinte a os desde que Eilis se cas con Tony Fiorello y abandon Brooklyn para mudarse a Long Island, junto a su extensa familia pol tica. Ah nacieron sus hijos, Rosella y Larry, y durante estos a os ha vivido en aparente armon a, hasta que un hombre con acento irland s aparece en la puerta de su casa con una inesperada noticia que hace que la fr gil paz conyugal, compuesta de atronadores silencios, se tambalee. Por primera vez en mucho tiempo, Eilis se siente lejos de su Irlanda natal y decide regresar a Enniscorthy, a un mundo que cre a haber dejado atr s y a unas maneras de vivir, y de amar, que pensaba haber perdido del todo. Se equivoc al elegir a Tony? Es demasiado tarde para cambiar de rumbo? Tras cautivar a m s de un mill n de lectores con Brooklyn, ganadora del Premio Costa Book, el maestro de los sentimientos Colm T ib n regresa con una exquisita secuela de alto impacto emocional. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 Barnes & Noble The Best Books of 2024 (So Far) / Literary Fiction OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * Named a Most Anticipated Book by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Financial Times, Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Good Housekeeping, AARP, and more * From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of 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 that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. 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 his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her 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. Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis's life are thunderous and dangerous, and there's no one more deft than T ib n at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she'd lost.

Irland i 50’erne: Den unge pige Eilis bor sammen med sin mor og søster i en lille by. Faren er død, og livet er hårdt for familien. Eilis møder en præst, som er på besøg fra New York, og han lover at skaffe hende et job. I Brooklyn begynder Eilis at arbejde i en tøjforretning, og hun finder sig hurtigt til rette, især da hun forelsker sig i italieneren Tony. Da hun bliver kaldt til begravelse hjemme i Irland, står hun pludselig over for et stor valg: Skal hun blive i Irland, hvor hun har sine rødder og gifte sig med Jim - eller skal hun tage tilbage til Amerika og en fremtid sammen med Tony? Om forfatteren: Colm Tóibín (f. 1955) er en af vor tids vigtigste irsk forfattere. Han bor i Dublin og New York, hvor han underviser på Columbia University. Han har modtaget adskillige priser, bl.a. IMPAC Award og været shortlistet til Booker Prize tre gange.

A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.'Beautifully captured moments of longing and loss' The Guardian'Truly remarkable' Richard FordMothers and Sons is a sensitive meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each story focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered. This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Colm Tóibín as a great prose stylist of our time. Part 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.

Heartbreak, wistfulness, cracking dialogue . . . This is Tibn at his best - The TimesA masterful novel full of longing and regret . . . Intensely moving and yet full of restraint - Douglas Stuart, author Shuggie BainOPRAHS BOOK CLUB PICKLong Island is Colm Tibn’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. The sequel to Colm Tibns prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn. A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future. And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2024, the sequel to the beloved bestseller, Brooklyn

A new selection of letters, statements and interviews reveal the preoccupations, thoughts and ideas of Francis Bacon, one of the 20th century’s most influential and important artists. The documents selected for Francis Bacon: A Self-Portrait in Words illustrate Bacon’s sharp wit and ability to express complex ideas in highly personal, memorable language. Included here are not only letters to friends, patrons and fellow artists, but also intriguing notes and lists of paintings. They often come with a sketch as an aide-mémoire or an injunction to himself as he worked in the studio, and many have only come to light since his death. Bacon’s letters mirror and reveal his dominant preoccupations at different points throughout his long career. Most of Bacon’s letters have never been published and include several that he wrote to the author. Particularly intriguing is the record of a dream that he jotted down, outlining impossibly beautiful paintings he had conjured up in his sleep. Together with photographs, archive material and works by the artist are numerous reproductions of Bacon’s characteristic handwriting, from the briefest jottings and notes to more extensive letters and statements. Bacon frequently came up with memorable epithets and definitions. He delighted in doing with words what he set out to do in painting: 'I like phrases that cut me.' Michael Peppiatt explores the personal legacy of one of the 20th century’s most important painters and presents a compelling verbal self-portrait that reveals both man and artist.

* 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).

'Beautiful . . . a thriller, a love story and much more' Roddy Doyle'A remarkable achievement . . . [a] sheer pleasure to read' The Sunday TimesRichard Garay lives alone with his mother in Buenos Aires, hiding his sexuality from her and the world. Stifled by a job he despises, he finds himself willing to take considerable risks. Set in Argentina in a time of great change, The Story of the Night by Colm Tóibín is a powerful and moving novel about sex, death, and a man who, as the Falklands War is fought and lost, finds his own way to emerge into the world. Part 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.