Brooklyn
Subtitle: a novel
By: Colm Tóibín
Edition: Scribner trade paperback edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781501106477
Subjects: Fiction; Irish; History; Women immigrants
Description: In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life -- and finally, she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy -- not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.
Notes: First published in hardcover by the same publisher in 2009.

Includes a preview of Colm Toibin's novel Nora Webster.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Winner of Costa Book Award, 2009.