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„Túto knihu si budete pamätať celý život.“ Ali Smith o knihe Brooklyn Eilis Laceyová vyrastala v malom írskom mestečku, v ťažkých rokoch po druhej svetovej vojne. Keď jej otec Flood z farnosti v Brooklyne ponúkne možnosť odísť do Spojených štátov, Eilis sa rozhodne vycestovať, a tak sa stane jednou z mnohých írskych emigrantov v USA. V Brooklyne si dokončí účtovnícku kvalifikáciu, nájde si prácu v obchodnom dome Bartocci´s, a keď to Eilis najmenej čaká, aj lásku. Nové „americké“ Írsko je však iné ako to pravé doma, medziľudským vzťahom chýba niečo osobné, prirodzené a nezištné. Zemepisná vzdialenosť, čo delí Eilis od jej najbližších v rodnej zemi, je neporovnateľne menšia než úmyselne zatajené rodinné tajomstvá. Postava Eilis Laceyovej je jedna z nezabudnuteľných literárnych hrdiniek súčasnej írskej tvorby a Colm Tóibín dôkladný, trpezlivý rybár, čo vyťahuje na hladinu hlboko ponorené, starostlivo ukryté city.

Deväť krátkych próz ovplyvnených autorovými zážitkami a spomienkami z čias detstva a mladosti v Írsku, z obdobia prežitého v Barcelone, ako aj pôsobenia v USA. Vynikajúco napísané príbehy – štýlom veľmi úsporným i poetickým – s nehou a neobyčajnou citlivosťou vyrozprávané podvedomé, skryté túžby ľudí, ktorí sa často nechtiac ocitli v cudzom, ďalekom svete.

Príbeh nám rozpráva Mária. Matka, ktorej vzali syna – syna, o ktorého prišiel aj svet. Žena, ktorá teraz žije v exile a strážia ju tí, čo sa usilujú zachovať posvätnosť pamiatky jej syna. Ale pravdivosť Máriiných spomienok na jeho zložitý život a tragickú smrť uznávajú len nemnohí z tých, čo jej syna poznali. A keď vôkol nej vyrastajú mýty ako múry, Mária sa upína na pravdu a v období chaosu a hlbokých zmien odhaľuje vlastnú krehkú ľudskosť. Jej zrakom otvára Colm Tóibín celkom nový pohľad na kresťanstvo a vytvára neuveriteľne ľudský portrét Márie, ktorá sa pre mnohých stala ikonou.

From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, but would never return to the country that inspired his creativity. Through one life, Colm Toibin tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century.___________________________________***Praise for Colm Tóibín***'A celebration of what novels can do' Observer'Devastatingly human . . . savage, sordid and hauntingly believable' Guardian 'Tremendous, richly beautiful, wonderful . . . it does everything we ought to ask of a great novel' Tessa Hadley'Subtle and enthralling' Sunday Times

“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) captures the loneliness and hope of a master of psychological subtlety whose forays into intimacy inevitably fail those he tried to love. Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers. With stunningly resonant prose, “The Master is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist: artful, moving, and very beautiful” (The New York Times Book Review). The emotional intensity of this portrait is riveting.

Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín provides “a fascinating exploration of writers and their families” ( Entertainment Weekly ) and “an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires” ( The Evening Standard ) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work.Colm Tóibín—celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays—traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind.Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, Tóibín examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, New Ways to Kill Your Mother is a fascinating look at writers’ most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.

From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France.Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.

Six writers - Bernard Loughlin, Colm Toibin, Michael Finlan, Rosita Boland, George O'Brien and Sean Dunne - have combined to produce a book which offers both a guide to the sites and sights of Ireland and a collection of photographs of its monuments and moods. Each of the contributors takes readers on a tour of one region, illuminating the landscape, the towns, the coastline, the rivers and the lochs. They introduce the history and the mystery, the heroes of hurling and the poets, and the life of the Ireland of today as it reflects the past.

Toibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.

An award-winning writer examines the life and work of some of the greatest authors of the past two centuries, figures whose homosexuality remained hidden or oblique for much of their lives. Toibin looks both at writers forced to disguise their true experience on the page, and at readers who find solace and sexual identity by reading between the lines.