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Brooklyn

by Colm Tóibín
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Emigration and love from a small town.

"Brooklyn" is a beautiful coming-of-age story that takes place in the 1950s, following the journey of Eilis Lacey as she leaves her small Irish town for New York City. The story revolves around the themes of emigration and love and how Eilis navigates through both while finding herself. This book is perfect for readers who enjoy historical fiction, romance, and stories about finding oneself.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2009)
  • Costa Book Award for Novel (2009)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)
  • Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (2012)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Brooklyn

by Colm Tóibín
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ISBN: 9781743540107
Authors: Colm Tóibín
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
Date of Publication: 2015-10-27
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Romance, Historical Fiction
Goodreads rating: 3.69
(rated by 111992 readers)

Description

**FILM TIE-IN***Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, Father Flood. Via a church contact, he arranges for Eilis to travel to America where a job opportunity has arisen in New York with a reputable "merchant of Italian origin".Eilis finds lodgings in an eccentric boarding house and ekes out an existence in the cosmopolitan melting pot that is 1950s Brooklyn, impressing her employer, outwitting her landlady, and even falling in love. It seems her dream is truly becoming a reality. But then fate intervenes: a family crisis back home forces Eilis to make a choice between the past and the future, the old world and the new. Told with a masterful and elegant simplicity, Brooklyn is a sublime Trans-Atlantic coming-of-age story by one of the UK's greatest living writers.
 

Emigration and love from a small town.

"Brooklyn" is a beautiful coming-of-age story that takes place in the 1950s, following the journey of Eilis Lacey as she leaves her small Irish town for New York City. The story revolves around the themes of emigration and love and how Eilis navigates through both while finding herself. This book is perfect for readers who enjoy historical fiction, romance, and stories about finding oneself.

  • Booker Prize Nominee for Longlist (2009)
  • Costa Book Award for Novel (2009)
  • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2009)
  • Premio San Clemente for Lingua estranxeira (2012)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2011)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.