num_pages: 275
description: On the heels of his breakout success the bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn Colm Tibn returns with a stunning collection of new stories. In the breathtaking long story The Street Tibn imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelonaa taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In Two Women an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. Silence is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party.Silence --The empty family --Two women --One minus one --The pearl fishers --Barcelona 1975 --The new Spain --The colour of shadows --The street
language: English
title: The Empty Family: Stories
publisher: Scribner