In the nine captivating stories that make up 'The Empty Family', Colm Tibn delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence, each of Tibn's stories manages to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.
A stellar collection from one of the greatest writers in the English language.
Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize 2011 Shortlist
Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
$27.95$14.95 – Paperback book / Fourth Estate
The stories in this collection, like the stories in A THOUSAND YEARS OF GOOD PRAYERS , are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of the 21st century, where economic development has led to new situa... Buy or find out more →
The Empty Family
$22.99 – Paperback book / Picador
In the nine captivating stories that make up 'The Empty Family', Colm Tibn delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their... Buy or find out more →
Light Lifting
$27.95 – Paperback book /
Giller Prize Finalist
Atlantic Book Award Winner
A Globe & Mail, Quill & Quire, and Amazon.ca Best Book of the Year
Finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award and the Frank O'Connor Award
A brilliant collection without ... Buy or find out more →
Saints And Sinners
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Faber
Winner of the 2011 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award
A woman walks the streets of Manhattan and contemplates with exquisite longing the precarious affair she has embarked on, amidst the grandeur and cacophon... Buy or find out more →
Marry Or Burn: Stories
$22.95 – Paperback book / Counterpoint Press
From the author of "Seven Loves" comes this austere, passionately shaped collection of stories that courageously explores the dynamic nature of modern marriage, the life-shattering heartbreak that often accompanies its c... Buy or find out more →
Death Is Not An Option
$33.95 – Hardcover book / W W Norton
This debut collection of stories features the tales of a potential home renter who is sucked into a strangely inappropriate correspondence with her landlord, and a teacher obsessed with a student who comes to school with... Buy or find out more →
