Brooklyn
Author(s): Colm Toibin
Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village. Eilis has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Her ambition is noted by the parish priest, Father Flood. He arranges for Eilis to travel to America, where a job opportunity has arisen in New York. Brooklyn is a sublime trans-Atlantic coming-of-age story.
Product Information
Winner of Costa Novel Award 2009.
Colm Toibin is the author of five previous novels, collections of short stories and many works of non-fiction. He has twice been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, for The Blackwater Lightship (1999) and The Master (2004). The Master won The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2006).
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
- : Picador Australia
- : 0.352
- : 01 May 2009
- : 235mm X mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : Colm Toibin
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823
- : good
- : 256
- : Modern fiction