The Empty Family

The bestselling and award-winning author of Brooklyn, Colm T?b?, returns with a stunning collection of stories–“a book that’s both a perfect introduction to T?b? and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure” (The Seattle Times).

Critics praised Brooklyn as a “beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.” In The Empty Family, T?b? has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters–people linked by love, loneliness, desire–“the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart” ( The Observer, UK).

In the breathtaking long story “The Street,” T?b? imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona–a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In “Two Women,” an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. “Silence” is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party.

The Empty Family will further cement T?b?’s status as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times ).

Author: Colm Toibin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 01/03/2012
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.28w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9781439195963
Language: English