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Brooklyn

by Colm Tóibín · 2009

Literary Fiction · ranked #33 in category

Eilis Lacey, a young Irish woman, leaves County Wexford for Brooklyn in the early 1950s, finding work, education and an unexpected romance — only to be pulled back to Ireland by a family tragedy. Tóibín's quietly devastating novel is about the particular sorrow of the immigrant: the impossible choice between the life you have built and the world you left behind.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2009 · 2000s
Author
Colm Tóibín
Standing
Essential Read

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