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The Empty Family [electronic resource] : Stories

Tóibín, Colm2010
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And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.'In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence each of Tóibín's stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9780670918195
Language:
English
BRN:
2553439
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