Brooklyn
Subtitle: a novel
By: Colm Toibin
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780771085369
Subjects: Fiction; Irish; History; Women immigrants
Description: In the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey leaves her widowed mother and charismatic sister behind in Ireland and heads for Brooklyn, where she finds a sort of happiness, but tragic news summons her back to Ireland, and she finds herself facing an impossible decision.