Brooklyn
«A lovely, thoughtful book ... alive with authentic detail, moved along by the ripples of affection and doubt that shape any life: a novel that offers the reader serious pleasure»
Daily Telegraph
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. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 272
- ISBN
- 9780141041742
- Utgivelsesår
- 2010
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Winner of Costa Novel Award 2009. Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011 and Galaxy National Book Awards: International Author of the Year 2010.
Anmeldelser
«A lovely, thoughtful book ... alive with authentic detail, moved along by the ripples of affection and doubt that shape any life: a novel that offers the reader serious pleasure»
Daily Telegraph
«Suffused with humane depth, funny, affecting, deftly plotted ... a novel of magnificent accomplishment»
Peter Kemp, Sunday Times, Novel of the Year
«Tremendously moving and powerful»
New Statesman
«Full of sly fun, lovely comic observation and an almost tangible pleasure in storytelling»
Observer
«Refreshingly authentic . . . Eilis is so vivid it's difficult to believe she did not actually exist»
Financial Times
«With this elating and humane novel, Colm Tóibín has produced a masterwork»
Sunday Times
«The most compelling and moving portrait of a young woman I have read in a long time»
Zoë Heller, Guardian, Books of the Year
«A work of such skill, understatement and sly jewelled merriment could haunt your life»
Ali Smith, TLS, Books of the Year
«Brooklyn moved me more than any other book this year»
Nicholas Hytner, Observer, Books of the Year
«A beautifully crafted work that transformed ordinary lives into something extraordinary»
Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year
«Not a sentence or a thought out of place. It takes over as his finest ficiton to date»
Irish Times
«Remarkable freshness and immediacy ... with a lovely comedic lightness»
Daily Mail