{"product_id":"the-empty-family-9781439195963","title":"The Empty Family","description":"On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn, 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\" ( The Seattle Times ).Critics praised Brooklyn as a \"beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.\" In The Empty Family, 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\" ( The Observer, UK). 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. The Empty Family will further cement Tóibín's status as \"his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power\" ( Los Angeles Times ).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439195963\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.04h x 5.28w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2012 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Colm Toibin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42496132841653,"sku":"9781439195963","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1aa25ce6-5d71-414b-8924-ffdbed0e9113.jpg?v=1667921279","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-empty-family-9781439195963","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}