Colm Tóibín

"Libro del año" según The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times y The Observer Novela sobre la fatalidad, el exilio, el amor o la familia, Brooklyn es una historia para siempre, dueña de un poder emocional sobrecogedor Eilis Lacey es una chica de familia humilde. Como tantos otros, no encuentra trabajo en su pequeño pueblo del sur de Irlanda, de modo que, cuando se le ofrece una posibilidad en Estados Unidos, no duda en aprovecharla. Poco a poco, Eilis ira abriendose paso en el Brooklyn de los años cincuenta y, sobrellevando a su manera la nostalgia y los rigores del exilio, encontrara incluso un primer amor y, con ello, la promesa de una nueva vida. El futuro esta a un paso, pero el destino jugara sus propias cartas. Con la templanza, el virtuosismo y la agudeza psicologica del maestro contemporaneo que es, Colm Toibin, uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses actuales, ha construido una historia estremecedora sobre el destino, cuya diafana superficie esconde un fondo donde se abisma una inagotable complejidad.La critica ha dicho: "Desde la primera linea en una historia de Colm Toibin uno esta sumergido

Por el ganador de los premios IMPAC, Costa Book, Forster y Femina, un retrato íntimo del siglo XX a traves de la vida de Thomas Mann NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO RATHBONES FOLIO "No es una biografía: es una obra de arte".The Times "Un triunfo imaginativo: inmensamente ameno, erudito, sofisticado, inteligente: un logro perfecto".Richard Ford Uno de los mejores libros del año segun La Vanguardia, WMagazin, El Independiente, Pagina Dos, The New York Times, The Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue y The Wall Street Journal Esta novela epica narra la historia de un hombre celebre, suspicaz y reservado, cuya vida interior sufrio intensas contradicciones: Thomas Mann. Nacido en Lubeck en 1875, Mann crecio ocultando a su padre sus aspiraciones artisticas y al mundo su orientacion homosexual. Se caso con la hija menor de una de las familias judias mas ricas y cultas de Munich, Katia, una mujer fascinante con la que tuvo seis hijos. Paso de defender un fervoroso patriotismo en la Primera Guerra Mundial a forjar una relacion oscura y compleja con su tierra natal cuando, al llegar Hitler al poder, anticipo los horrores del nazismo. Exiliado en

«Libro del año» segúnThe Daily Telegraph,The Guardian,The Sunday Times yThe ObserverNovela sobre la fatalidad, el exilio, el amor o la familia, Brooklyn es una historia para siempre, dueña de un pode

«TÓIBÍN EN SU MEJOR VERSIÓN».THE TIMESLa emocionante continuación de Brooklyn, ganadora del Premio Costa Book, mejor libro del año según The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times y The Obse

"Libro del año" según The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Sunday Times y The Observer Novela sobre la fatalidad, el exilio, el amor o la familia, Brooklyn es una historia para siempre, dueña de un poder emocional sobrecogedor Eilis Lacey es una chica de familia humilde. Como tantos otros, no encuentra trabajo en su pequeño pueblo del sur de Irlanda, de modo que, cuando se le ofrece una posibilidad en Estados Unidos, no duda en aprovecharla. Poco a poco, Eilis ira abriendose paso en el Brooklyn de los años cincuenta y, sobrellevando a su manera la nostalgia y los rigores del exilio, encontrara incluso un primer amor y, con ello, la promesa de una nueva vida. El futuro esta a un paso, pero el destino jugara sus propias cartas. Con la templanza, el virtuosismo y la agudeza psicologica del maestro contemporaneo que es, Colm Toibin, uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses actuales, ha construido una historia estremecedora sobre el destino, cuya diafana superficie esconde un fondo donde se abisma una inagotable complejidad.La critica ha dicho: "Desde la primera linea en una historia de Colm Toibin uno esta sumergido

It is the battle between those who use a toothbrush and those who dont. So wrote Augusta Gregory to W.B. Yeats; she was referring to the riots at the Abbey Theatre over The Playboy of the Western World, and she knew which side she was on. In this remarkable biographical essay, Colm Toibin examines the contradictions that defined the position of this essential figure in Irish cultural history, The wife of a landlord and MP who had been personally responsible for introducing measures that compounded the misery of the Irish peasantry during the Great Famine, Lady Gregory devoted much of her creative energy to idealizing the same peasantry while never abandoning the aristocratic hauteur, the social connections or the great house which her birth and marriage had bequeathed her. Early in her writing life, her politics were staunchly unionist yet she campaigned for the freedom of Egypt from colonial rule. Later she wrote plays celebrating rebellion, but trembled in her bed when the Irish revolution threatened her property and her way of life. Lady Gregorys capacity to occupy mutually contradictory positions was essential to her heroic work as a founder and director of the Abbey Theatre nurturing Synge and OCasey, battling rioters and censors and to her central role in the career of W. B. Yeats. She was Yeatss artistic collaborator (writing most of Cathleen Ni Houlihan, for example), his helpmeet, and his diplomatic wing. Toibins account of Yeatss attemts by turns glorious and graceless to memorize Lady Gregorys son Robert when he was killed in the First World War, and of Lady Gregorys pain at her loss and at the poets appropriation of it, is a moving tour de force of literary history. Toibin also reveals a side of Lady Gregory that is at odds with the received image of a chilly dowager. Early in her marriage to Sir William Gregory, she had an affain with the poet and anti-imperialist Wilfred Scawen Blunt and wrote a series of torrid love sonnets that Blunt published under his own name. Much later in life, as she neared her sixtieth birthday, she fell in love with the great patron of arts John Quinn, who was eighteen years her junior. Lady Gregorys Toothbrush is a sharp, concentrated, witty and much-needed reassessment of a major cultural figure who has been oddly taken for granted and often badly misunderstood.

Em O testamento de Maria, Colm Tóibín, nome central na literatura contemporânea, assume o ponto de vista da mãe de Jesus Cristo e põe em xeque alguns dos pilares da cultura Ocidental. No exílio na ci

The Heather Blazing is a wonderful character study of a man, his childhood, family, and community.

A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it.From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Toibin delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction.The imprint of the written word on the private self, as Toibin himself remarks, is extraordinarily powerful. In this collection, that power is gloriously alive, illuminating history and literature, politics and power, family and the self.

Winner of the David Cohen Prize for Literature 2021. From the highly acclaimed author of Brooklyn, Colm Toibin's first collection of poetry explores sexuality, religion and belonging through a modern lens. Fans of Colm Toibin's novels, including The Magician, The Master and Nora Webster, will relish the opportunity to re-encounter Toibin in verse.Vinegar Hill explores the liminal space between private experiences and public events as Toibin examines a wide range of subjects - politics, queer love, reflections on literary and artistic greats, living through COVID, memory and a fading past, and facing mortality. The poems reflect a life well-travelled and well-lived; from growing up in the town of Enniscorthy, wandering the streets of Dublin and Barcelona, and crossing the bridges of Venice to visiting the White House, readers will travel through familiar locations and new destinations through Toibin's unique lens. Within this rich collection of poems written over the course of several decades, shot through with keen observation, emotion and humour, Toibin offers us lines and verses to provoke, ponder and cherish.

Por el ganador de los premios IMPAC, Costa Book y Forster, un retrato íntimo del siglo XX a traves de la vida de Thomas Mann Uno de los mejores libros del año según The New York Times, The Times, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue y The Wall Street Journal Esta novela epica narra la historia de un hombre celebre, suspicaz y reservad, cuya vida interior sufrio siempre intensas contradicciones: Thomas Mann. Nacido en Lubeck en 1875, Mann crecio ocultando a su padre sus aspiraciones artisticas y al mundo su orientacion homosexual. Se caso con la hija menor de una de las familias judias mas ricas y cultas de Munich, Katia, una mujer fascinante con la que tuvo seis hijos. Paso de un entusiasmado patriotismo en la Primera Guerra Mundial a forjar una relacion oscura y compleja con su tierra natal cuando, al llegar Hitler al poder, anticipo los horrores del nazismo. Exiliado en Francia, Suiza y Estados Unidos, lucho por mantener a los suyos a salvo y padecio los terribles estragos del suicidio de hermanos e hijos. Escribio algunas de las mejores obras de la literatura europea y gano el Premio Nobel, pero nunca

From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family.The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism.He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity.Through one life, Colm Toibin tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century.___________________________________'As with everything Colm Toibin sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized' - Richard Ford'No living novelist dramatizes artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Toibin .. . reading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer' - Garth Greenwell'This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world' - Katharina Volckmer

Brooklyn divides its story, and its character, between the borough of New York and Tóibín’s favoured stamping ground of Enniscorthy, in Wexford, south-east Ireland. (“I thought it was dreary,” he sai

''They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams.''On the day of his daughter''s wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice.His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory.Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace''s dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family''s game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act.House of Names is a story of intense longing and shocking betrayal. It is a work of great beauty, and daring, from one of our finest living writers.