by Colm Tóibín · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435017480
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«El faro de Blackwater» is the novel by Colm Tóibín, published by Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
Set in Ireland at the end of the twentieth century, the novel follows three women of the Deveroux family —Dora, her daughter Lily, and her granddaughter Helen— who have not spoken to each other for years. The request of Declan, Helen's brother and ill with AIDS, that they accompany him in his final days forces them to confront their feelings and to revisit a past of silences.
Translation by María Isabel Butler de Foley. Edition from the Pocket collection of Edhasa. It was a finalist for the IMPAC Award and the Booker Prize.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in family dramas and in Ireland at the end of the twentieth century.
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.
