Description
Book SynopsisColm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of several novels, including
Brooklyn, the 2009 Costa Novel of the Year,
The Master, which was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize and winner of the LA Times Book Prize and the IMPAC Book Award, and
The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize and the 2001 IMPAC Award. His non-fiction includes
Bad Blood,
Homage to Barcelona,
The Sign of the Cross and
Love in a Dark Time. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Dublin.
Trade ReviewTóibín writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty. * Daily Telegraph *
Tóibín has the narrative poise of Brian Moore and the patient eye for domestic detail of John McGahern, but he is very much his own man. * Observer *
High-class reportage . . . Tóibín was conscientious about talking to real people, not just “names” with a good line in TV chat, and went to see and hear and sense things at a local, grassroots level. * Irish Times *
