Brief Description:
Post-World War II, Eilis can't make a living in Ireland, so she heads for teeming New York, where she finds a love with blue-eyed Italian Tony that might be jeopardized by bad news from home.

Biographical Note:
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of The Writers' Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022-2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. He was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. He was also awarded the Bodley Medal, the Würth Prize for European Literature, and the Prix Femina spécial for his body of work.

Review Quotes:
Praise for Brooklyn

"Written with mesmerizing power and skill." --Richard Eder, Boston Globe

"Colm Tóibín ... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." --Floyd Skoot, Los Angeles Times

"Tóibín creates suspense out of the simplest emotions: fear, love and, most poignantly, regret." -- Time

"Eilis' universal struggles with matters of the heart ... make this novel ... a moving, deeply satisfying read." -- Entertainment Weekly

"[A] gem of a novel... profound." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR

"Quietly majestic." --Claire Messud, The New York Review of Books

"[A] masterly tale... There is not a sentence or a thought out of place.... His finest fiction to date." --Bernard O'Donoghue, Irish Times

"[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations." --USA Today

Publisher Marketing:
Colm Tóibín's New York Times bestselling novel--now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture--is "a moving, deeply satisfying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s.

"One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.

Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.

Author "Colm Tóibín...is his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" ( Los Angeles Times). "Written with mesmerizing power and skill" ( The Boston Globe), Brooklyn is a "triumph...One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations" ( USA TODAY).

Review Citations:

• Entertainment Weekly 03/19/2010 pg. 94 (EAN 9781439148952, Paperback)
• New York Times Book Review 04/11/2010 pg. 24 (EAN 9781439148952, Paperback)
• Library Journal 10/15/2009 pg. 48 (EAN 9781433291883, Compact Disc)
• Audio File 08/01/2009 pg. 45 (EAN 9781433291906, Compact Disc)
• Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2009 pg. 61 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• Library Journal 03/15/2009 pg. 98 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
• Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2009 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover) - *Starred Review
• Publishers Weekly 03/23/2009 pg. 43 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• Booklist 04/15/2009 pg. 29 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• New York Times Book Review 05/10/2009 pg. 26 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• Entertainment Weekly 05/15/2009 pg. 61 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• Time 05/18/2009 pg. 63 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• New York Review of Books pg. 4 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• New Yorker (The) 06/01/2009 pg. 87 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• London Review of Books 06/25/2009 pg. 11 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• Newsweek 07/13/2009 pg. 47 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• New Yorker (The) 12/14/2009 pg. 85 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)
• Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9781439138311, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:Toibin, Colm
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of The Writers' Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022-2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland. He was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. He was also awarded the Bodley Medal, the Würth Prize for European Literature, and the Prix Femina spécial for his body of work.