Brooklyn
by Colm Toibin
Book Details
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 04/03/2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-13: 9780141041742
General & Literary Fiction
Author Biography
Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of five other novels, including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and a collection of stories, Mothers and Sons.
Brief Description
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, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.