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The Empty Family audiobook
- By: Colm Toibin
- Narrator: Colm Toibin
- Category: Fiction, Literary
- Length: 8 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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The Empty Family Audiobook Summary
On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn, Colm Toibin returns with a stunning collection of stories–“a book that’s both a perfect introduction to Toibin 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, Toibin 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,” Toibin 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.
Reviewed on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, The Empty Family will further cement Toibin’s status as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” ( Los Angeles Times ).
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The Empty Family Audiobook Narrator
Colm Toibin is the narrator of The Empty Family audiobook that was written by Colm Toibin
Colm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; 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 has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.
About the Author(s) of The Empty Family
Colm Toibin is the author of The Empty Family
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The Empty Family Full Details
| Narrator | Colm Toibin |
| Length | 8 hours 36 minutes |
| Author | Colm Toibin |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 24, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781442337282 |
Additional info
The publisher of the The Empty Family is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442337282.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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