(Ebook) Brooklyn (A Novel) by Colm Tóibín

(Ebook) Brooklyn (A Novel) by Colm Tóibín

Eilis Lacey is one among many from her generation who cannot find work in her homeland during the 1950s. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her sense of misery and isolation.Slowly, however, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life – until she begins to realise that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Ireland, not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn.In the quiet character of Eilis Lacey, Colm Tóibín has created one of fiction's most memorable heroines and in Brooklyn, a luminous novel of devastating power. Tóibín demonstrates once again his astonishing range and that he is a true master of nuanced prose, emotional depth, and narrative virtuosity.