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Un gran escriptor irlandés, Colm Tóibín, traduït a moltes llengües, ha decidit situar en el Pirineu català una de les seves millors narracions. En un poblet a cavall del Pallars i l’Alt Urgell, hi f

Situada en la Irlanda de finales del siglo XX, esta novela nos relata la historia de la familia Deveroux. Tras varios años sin apenas dirigirse la palabra, las tres protagonistas de esta novela, Dora, su hija Lily y su nieta Helen, se ven obligadas a desn

From the bestselling author of "The Piano Tuner" comes a haunting new story, set in an unnamed country, about a young girl's journey in search of her brother. Told with extraordinary empathy, the story becomes a universal tale about the bonds of family.

El libro de la película: Un amor entre dos mundos. La joven irlandesa Eilis Lacey emigró en 1950 a Estados Unidos en busca de trabajo en Brooklyn. Ella es asistente en una tienda por departamentos. El ajuste es dificil, la nostalgia es grande - hasta que conocieron a Tony.

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.

"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...

''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.

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

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.

With an introduction by award-winning novelist Tessa HadleyIn January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost.In The Master Colm Toibin captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a powerful account of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.

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

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.

"Les emocions contingudes, l’equilibri i la transformació de les relacions familiars, l’emigració, l’exili, la societat de la seva Irlanda natal, el sentiment ambigu de pertinença, els retorns imposs