{"product_id":"books-the-empty-family-by-colm-toibin","title":"The Empty Family","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, Colm Tóibín, returns with a stunning collection of stories--\"a book that's both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Critics praised \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e as a \"beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.\" In \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/i\u003e, Tóibín has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters--people linked by love, loneliness, desire--\"the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e, London).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the breathtaking long story \"The Street,\" Tóibín imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona--a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In \"Two Women,\" an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. \"Silence\" is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/i\u003e will further cement Tóibín's status as \"his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53671083180305,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781439195963.jpg?v=1781514655","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-the-empty-family-by-colm-toibin","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}