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

Una espléndida interpretación de la Orestíada de Esquilo, por el autor de Brooklyn y Nora Webster. Colm Tóibín retoma la única obra conservada del teatro griego antiguo y la revisa con maravillosa sensibilidad, centrandose en la historia de Clitemnestra, una mujer audaz, capaz de usar los instintos mas lujuriosos para orquestar tu venganza y defender su rol de madre.Reseña:[...] Lo que logra Toibin es que la lectura de la novela sea tan ligera como profunda. O tan suave en la forma como calado deja en el lector. Haya leido el clasico teatral en que se apoya o no.Pedro Bosqued, Heraldo de Aragon Esta novela es una puesta en valor de hombres y mujeres que aun parecen respirar delante de nosotros despues de miles de años.The Washington Post Uno de los mejores escritores irlandeses de nuestro tiempo realiza una esplendida interpretacion de la Orestiada de Esquilo.Revista Mia[...] Libro nuevo hecho con material antiguo, escrito con un estilo preciso y sutil, que nos atrapa desde la primera linea.Gara-Zazpika La novela nos propone una recreacion realista y angustiosa del mito tragico, de potente impacto emotivo y en un estilo que no es teatral ni epico, pero si vivaz, algo que conserva muy bien la excelente traduccion española.Carlos Garcia Gual, Revista de Libros

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce.

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

Una extraordinaria novela corta de uno de los grandes novelistas anglosajones de nuestros días. En este relato sobrecogedor Colm Tóibín da voz a María, una mujer desgarrada que, tras la violenta muerte de Jesus, rememora los extraños y convulsos acontecimientos que le han tocado en suerte. Aqui quien habla no es virgen ni diosa, sino una madre judia, ciudadana de un extremo del imperio romano donde aun alientan ritos helenicos, convencida de que su hijo se ha dejado corromper por nefastas influencias politicas. Sola y exiliada, nostalgica de su marido y de una epoca de calma y seguridad que de pronto quedo destruida por la implicacion de Jesus en disturbios, aparentes sanaciones milagrosas y confabulaciones que acabaron con la crucifixion del hombre que habia llevado en sus entrañas, Maria recuerda y habla. Con extraordinario virtuosismo y admirable capacidad dramatica, Colm Toibin compone a lo largo de estas paginas un verdadero stabat mater contemporaneo, lleno de luz y dolor, un lamento que nace de la tradicion y llega hasta nuestros dias.Una aproximacion a la vida de Maria desde una perspectiva exclusivamente humana.Jose Antonio Gurpegui, El Cultural Un climax provocativo tan espiritualmente profundo como la sinceridad de su prosa. [...] Una obra impregnada de misterio y asombro.Kirkus Reviews Unanovela exquisita. [...] Toibin aporta una intimidad sorprendente en una historia mundialmente conocida.The New Yorker Un logro monumental [...] Una exploracion tierna y desgarradora del duelo de una madre; una obra ardiente y deslumbrante.Leyla Sanai, The IndependentUna obra impecable, emocionante, conmovedora y aterradora.Linda Grant, The New Statesman Dramatico y poetico. [...] Una historia poderosa y devastadora.Ron Charles, The Washington Post Hermosa, discreta, poderosa y triste: Toibin da a la madre de Jesus la oportunidad de hablar y ella aprovecha para arrojar a un lado el velo azul de la Virgen para volverse total y gloriosamente humana.Annalisa Quinn, NPRUn libro importante y persuasivo: la Maria cansada de Toibin, esceptica y rencorosa, se antoja mucho mas real que la santa virgen perpetua de la leyenda. Toibin es ademas un escritor maravilloso: como siempre, su prosa lirica y conmovedora es el verdadero milagro.Naomi Alderman, ObserverToibin aplica una crueldad joyceana. [...] Imaginarse a si mismo en la cabeza de Maria es su salto mas audaz hasta ahora.Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books Magistral, cautivadora y profundamente inteligente.Robert Collins, Sunday TimesUn profundo -y a ratos doloroso- retrato humano de Maria que desgarra las tunicas de rojo y azul que la envuelven en pinturas y esculturas.Michael O'Loughlin, America Magazine Un libro poderoso y sincero.Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal Un libro fascinante y sorprende, escrito con mucho respeto.Jeff Giles, Entertainment WeeklyTan hermosa en su presentacion como provocativa en su intencion.Booklist Maria, silenciosa, obediente, observadora, ha cimentado durante dos milenios un potente ideal en la imaginacion occidental. Ahora, el magis...

"I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that ´ In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history...

THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'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.

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go.Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.

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 attempts 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.

A &i Times& i and &i Sunday Times& i Best Book of 2024 the sequel to the beloved bestseller &i Brooklyn& i

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub and The Millions!From one of the most engaging and brilliant writers of our time comes a not to be missed (LitHub) collection of eleven essays about growing up in Ireland during radical change; about cancer, priests, popes, homosexuality, and literature.IT ALL STARTED WITH MY BALLS. So begins Colm Toibins fabulously compelling essay, laced with humor, about his diagnosis and treatment for cancer. Toibin survives, but he has entered, as he says, the age of one ball. The second essay in this seductive collection is a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and 60s in the small town of Enniscorthy in County Wexford, the setting for many of Toibins novels and stories, including Brooklyn, The Blackwater Lightship, and Nora Webster. Toibin describes his education by priests, several of whom were condemned years later for abuse. He writes about Irish history and literature, and about the long, tragic journey toward legal and social acceptance of homosexuality.

It is impossible to read Tóibín without being moved, touched and finally changed' – Independent on SundayColm Tóibín’s The Heather Blazing details the life of Eamon Redmond, a judge in Ireland’s high

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

"Fine ''800. Eilis e una ragazza molto giovane; vive in Manda con la sorella Rose e la madre vedova, conducendo un''esistenza timida e semplice, segnata dall''amicizia con Nancy. Un giorno Rose porta a casa come ospite un prete di New York, che garantisce di poter trovare un posto fisso a Eilis in America. Eilis ci crede; la madre, pur soffrendone, accetta di farla partire e presto Eilis, sbarcata a Brooklyn, incomincia a lavorare nel grande magazzino di un italiano, Bartocci, vivendo in una camera d''affitto presso una certa signora Kehoe. A poco a poco, Eilis riesce a vincere la nostalgia e la solitudine; si inserisce nel nuovo ambiente, impara a esprimere le proprie idee, a frequentare ambienti di ogni tipo, scopre il privilegio di leggere e acculturarsi. Fino a incontrare anche un ragazzo italo-americano, Tony, di cui si innamora, che la leghera per sempre all''America. Dovra vincere molte diffidenze, ma Eilis, novella Cenerentola, forte del proprio carattere riuscira a coronare i suoi sogni. "

"Episodi, drammi, ricordi, nostalgie di momenti famigliari vissuti, ascoltati, raccontati. Protagonisti diversi, in luoghi diversi e tempi diversi, che pero si trovano in situazioni sempre simili, che tornano a casa per rendersi conto che la loro casa non e li. Un uomo si rivolge alla sua ex e le racconta il saluto finale dato a sua madre, sul letto di morte, sei mesi prima - dove evidentemente il suo cuore e restato. Una donna - Lady Gregory - nel primo Novecento vive una tormentata ma intensa storia d''amore clandestina con un uomo in Egitto, ma teme che, non essendo la relazione a conoscenza di nessuno, muoia con lei, e per questo la racconta a una cena a Henry James perche la scriva in qualche suo testo e trovi dimora per sempre nelle sue parole. La storia proibita di due immigrati pachistani che scoprono la loro omosessualita e cercano di difenderla da ogni condizionamento: anche da quello della famiglia di uno dei due, sposato e con figli. Un caleidoscopio di vicende che accadono ai margini della famiglia: dove i confini tra se e gli altri si definiscono e sfumano. "