by Colm Tóibín · LUMEN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426417701
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«Brooklyn» is the novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín, published by Lumen in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
Eilis Lacey, a young woman from a town in the south of Ireland, emigrates to 1950s Brooklyn to build a future for herself. There she finds work and a first love while trying to cope with nostalgia and exile. But tragic news from home pushes her to return and weigh whether the future she has built matters more than the home she left behind.
First installment of the Eilis Lacey series. Translated from the English by Ana Andrés Lleó. Edition published in 2010.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs, with a story of emigration, family and belonging.
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.
