World Book Club - Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
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Hariett Gilbert talks to Irish author Colm Toibin about his book Brooklyn.
A haunting tale of love, loss and familial duty, and winner of the 2009 UK Costa Novel Award, Brooklyn follows the fortunes of a young Irish woman who leaves home to make a new life for herself in 1950s New York.
Hear how Colm's own painful memories of homesickness in America and Spain inform Eilis' experiences in Brooklyn and how her ambivalent relationship to the small town Ireland she's left behind also echoes Colm Toibin's own.
Published on Saturday, 6th August 2011.
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