Colm Tóibín

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.

Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s.

From Colm Tóibín, an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history, and literature told through the lives and work of three men - William Wilde, John Butler Yeats, and John Stanislaus Joyce - and the complicated, influential relationships they had with their complicated sons....

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.

Wealthy and devout, Michael and Julia Glynn are the envy of their neighbors and the model Irish Catholic couple, bearing Michael's increasingly painful and crippling arthritis with stoicism. In hope of a miracle, their priest suggests a family pilgrimage to Lourdes.

During the winter solstice, on the shortest day and longest night of the year, the ancient burial chamber at Newgrange is empowered. Its mystifying source is a haunting tale told by locals....

In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter....

Eamon Redmond is a judge in Ireland’s high court, a completely legal creature who is just beginning to discover how painfully unconnected he is from other human beings....

Meryl Streep’s performance of Colm Tóibín's acclaimed portrait of Mary is hailed by the New York Times Book Review as “an ideal audiobook"....

"I have been acquainted with the smell of death." So begins Clytemnestra's tale of her own life in ancient Mycenae, the legendary Greek city....

The only comprehensive biography of the astute observer and diarist Alice James, whose life and legacy were long overshadowed by her two famous brothers, William and Henry James.

Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born....

A young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan Pyrenees upon completing his military service. His younger brother, Jordi, will be departing for his service a week after Miquel’s arrival. He will be gone for two years.

From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a collection of essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature....

In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Tibn delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often willingly cast adrift from their history....

Ein Aufbruch ins Unbekannte: Die junge Irin Eilis Lacey wandert um 1950 nach Amerika aus, um in Brooklyn eine neue Arbeit zu finden. Doch sie passt...

In a brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original collection of essays, the best-selling and award-winning author offers a fascinating exploration of famous writers’ relationships to their families and their work....

Tout bascule lorsqu'un inconnu frappe à la porte d'Eilis Lacey. Mariés depuis vingt ans, Tony et elle vivent le rêve américain des années 1970, une vie confortable à Long Island où ils élèvent leurs deux enfants.

L'America vista dagli occhi di una giovane irlandese che emigra in cerca del suo posto nel mondo. 1952. Trovare lavoro a Enniscorthy, nel Sud-Est del-l'Irlanda, semina solo frustrazione e desiderio di un benessere che non c'è. La giovane Eilis Lacey, prigioniera del confronto quotidiano con la...

Filled with insights, provocation, and humor, On the Couch offers an original and nuanced portrait of Freud as a complex figure who, for all his flaws, forever changed how we see ourselves and the world.