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Long Island

Long Island

Colm Tóibín

Long Island is Colm Tóibín's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever. A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times. The love ...

Publisher:
Picador
Year of publication:
2025
ISBN:
978-1-0350-2946-4
Pages:
368
12,50 €
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Long Island is Colm Tóibín's masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.

A Book of the Year in The Times, Irish Times, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The Observer, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times.

The love story of the century

A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.

And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?

'Riveting' Elizabeth Strout
'Masterful' Douglas Stuart
'Wonderful' Oprah Winfrey
'Entrancing' The Economist
'Magnificent' The Times
'Exquisite' New York Times
'Gorgeous' The Independent
'Dazzling' The Financial Times
'A masterclass' The Guardian

*Long Island was an instant Sunday Times bestseller w/c 27/5/24

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