You can find more details, and pre-order, on the Nathan site. We’re currently preparing a new addition to our Reading Guide collection about Brooklyn. In January 2022, he was named Laureate for Irish Fiction for a three-year term.

His first books were inspired by three years living in Barcelona after university, and has taught extensively in U.S. Just like writers such as James Joyce, Tóibín has lived in exile much of his adult life, and yet returns to his home country in his fiction, poetry and plays. Read more about the film here.Ĭolm Tóibín was born in 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, where Brooklyn and several of his other works are set. Brooklyn by Colm Tibn Week two: dialogue John Mullan Fri 19.05 EDT 1 I n the small Irish town where Eilis lives with her elder sister and widowed mother, talk is guarded. It was adapted by novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) into a popular film starring Saoirse Ronan. But once she is finally settled there, she is called back to Ireland for a family emergency and will soon face a dilemma: return to New York or remain living a quieter, more predictable life in Ireland. It follows Eilis Lacey, who is dispatched by her family to Brooklyn in search of work and a better future. We’re preparing a Reading Guide for the novel, coming out just after the Toussaint holidays.īrooklyn is set in 1950s Ireland and New York. It’s a very approachable novel covering themes of exile, homesickness, first love and personal choice. A new addition to the programme limitatif LLCER anglais Terminale is Brooklyn by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín (2009).

Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín