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    Brooklyn: A Novel
    Brooklyn: A Novel
    Brooklyn: A Novel
    Audiobook7 hours

    Brooklyn: A Novel

    Written by Colm Tóibín

    Narrated by Kirsten Potter

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    Colm Tóibín’s New York Times bestselling novel—also an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture—is “a moving, deeply satisfying read” (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the early 1950s.

    “One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.

    Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, who loves the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.

    Author “Colm Tóibín…is his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” (Los Angeles Times). “Written with mesmerizing power and skill” (The Boston Globe), Brooklyn is a “triumph…One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations” (USA TODAY).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMay 5, 2016
    ISBN9781508226932
    Author

    Colm Tóibín

    Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of eleven novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín was appointed the Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022-2024.

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    • 5/5
      I was amazed that really the main two places in the book that differed from the movie completely changed the feeling that I had towards the main character. In the movie I saw her as someone who grew into her own strength and discovered herself and what she wanted. And in the book she was just the same girl lobbed back and forth between two lives by other people and by circumstances. The character in the movie with the nice Hollywood ending was someone I admired but the character in the book was someone that I was a little disappointed with and dare I say disgusted by. And yet as much as I hate to admit it I could see myself in her with some decisions I've made in my life and I can understand how she got tangled up that way. But I ended up feeling really sorry for the men in her life. It is well written and you don't even notice how much time has passed because it's so easy to get caught up in the story. The characters are so well developed they come alive until you feel you would know them on the street. And I think if you haven't seen the movie, read the book first - which is a pretty good rule of thumb anyway.
    • 4/5
      I was disappointed on how the book ended. The author should write a sequel.
    • 3/5
      I was shocked at how fast the book was over. I think it left me empty; just too much missing which could have come next. I was disappointed.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this book. I mostly read it because I loved the movie so much and I’m glad how true the movie stayed for the most part with the book.
    • 5/5
      Such fluidic writing, all the emotions are suggestive and unencumbered by sentimentality. Evokes a great feeling of longing nostalgia and unexpectedly, hope.
    • 2/5
      this book had inappropriate content which should have been omitted
    • 3/5
      good. not great. not bad. good. nice to have a book with little drama.