From the award-winning author of THE MASTER, a moving historical novel--by far Toibin's most accessible book--set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s about a young woman torn between her family and her past in Ireland and the...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access...

House of Names von Toibin, Colm

A New York Times Notable Book, Critic’s Top Pick, and Top Ten Book of Historical Fiction Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, NPR, Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek ​From one of today’s most...

Love in a Dark Time von Toibin, Colm

A fictionalized study based on many biographical materials and family accounts of Henry James's life, this volume ranges seamlessly from his memories of his prominent Brahmin family in the States to his settling in England. Along the way...

This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn. This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland and reach out for a new life....

From the multiple award-winning author of The Master and Brooklyn, an illuminating look at Irish culture, history, and literature through the lives of the fathers of three of Ireland's greatest writers?Oscar Wilde's father, William...

In NORA WEBSTER we see a family remade, a woman who, consumed by grief, is at times resilient, at times distant - who is unmoored yet who will be ultimately redefined by her love and her loss. von Tóibín, Colm

"The Blackwater Lightship" ist eine tiefgreifende Familiengeschichte, die in Irland spielt. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte von Helen, einer verheirateten Lehrerin und Mutter von zwei Kindern, die ihre entfremdete Mutter und Großmutter...

A daring and deeply moving novel set in Argentina in the time of the Generals--a time when the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her...

"New Writing 11" ist eine Anthologie, die von Colm Tóibín und A. L. Kennedy herausgegeben wurde. Diese Sammlung präsentiert eine vielfältige Auswahl an zeitgenössischen literarischen Werken, darunter Kurzgeschichten, Essays und Gedichte...