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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.

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022 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 Tóibín tells the breathtaking story of the twentieth century. ___________________________________ 'As with everything Colm Tóibín sets his masterful hand to, The Magician is a great imaginative achievement -- immensely readable, erudite, worldly and knowing, and fully realized' - Richard Ford 'No living novelist dramatizes artistic creation as profoundly, as luminously, as Colm Tóibín . . . reading him is among the deepest pleasures our literature can offer' - Garth Greenwell 'This is not just a whole life in a novel, it's a whole world' - Katharina Volckmer

'The Master' is a portrait of a man who was elusive to both friends and family even as he remained astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art - a searching exploration of the mind before affairs of the heart.

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.

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

A collection of short stories that explores the complex relationships between mothers and their sons.

From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as the intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction