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The Empty Family: Stories
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Colm Tóibín
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- LGBTQ+ Fiction,
- Historical Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Stories exploring forbidden desire in immigrant communities
- Historical fiction with real-life literary figures at intimate crossroads
- Characters confronting loneliness and the cost of silence
The bestselling and award-winning author of 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).
In The Empty Family, Tóibín has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters—people linked by love, loneliness, desire.
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."
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