BorderKitchen - Colm Tóibín
On 22 October, BorderKitchen welcomes Colm Tóibín one of Ireland's leading contemporary authors.
Long Island
Colm Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York, where he teaches at Columbia University. His literary work has won many awards, including the International Dublin Literary Award - he has also been nominated several times for the prestigious Booker Prize.
During this evening, Tóibín will discuss his new book Long Island, the sequel to his successful work Brooklyn. In Long Island, he builds shimmering tension in a subdued tone.
About the book
Long Island New York, 1970s. Irish Eilis Lacey has lived with her husband, Tony Fiorello, and children on Long Island for twenty years, a little too close to her in-laws. Until a shocking piece of news drives Eilis back to Ireland, to a world she had long left behind, to ways of living and loving that she thought she had lost. A masterful novel of longing and regret. A story of lovers meeting again, of compromise and resolution in old age.' - Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain