Overview
Con la templanza, el virtuosismo y la perspicacia psicolĆ³gica del maestro contemporĆ”neo que es, Colm TĆ³ibĆn, uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses de nuestros dĆas, ha construido una historia estremecedora sobre el destino cuya diĆ”fana superficie esconde un fondo donde se abisma una complejidad inagotable.
Eilis Lacey es una chica de familia humilde que, como tantos otros, no encuentra trabajo en el pequeƱo pueblo del sudeste de Irlanda en el que vive. Por ello, cuando se le ofrece un puesto en NorteamƩrica no duda en aceptarlo.
Poco a poco, Eilis se abre paso en el Brooklyn de los aƱos cincuenta y, a despecho de la nostalgia y los rigores del exilio, encuentra incluso un primer amor y la promesa de una nueva vida.
Inesperadamente, sin embargo, trƔgicas noticias de Irlanda le obligan a regresa y enfrentarse a todo aquello de lo que ha huido.
ReseƱa:
Ā«Desde la primera lĆnea en una historia de Colm TĆ³ibĆn uno estĆ” sumergido por completo en una conciencia. Da igual que sea una novela o un cuento. La inmersiĆ³n es la misma, y no cesa hasta el final.Ā»
Antonio MuƱoz Molina, El PaĆs
Ā«Brooklyn-, de TĆ³ibĆn, una historia de premios Ćscar.Ā»
Daniela Mendoza, La RazĆ³n
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm TĆ³ibĆn's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn to sponsor Eilis in America -- to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland" -- she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.
Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian from a big family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. He talks of having children who are Dodgers fans. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.
By far TĆ³ibĆn's most instantly engaging and emotionally resonant novel, Brooklyn will make readers fall in love with his gorgeous writing and spellbinding characters.
This book title, Brooklyn / Brooklyn: A Novel, ISBN: 9788426402899, by Colm Toibin, published by PRH Grupo Editorial (June 28, 2016) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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