Brooklyn

Colm Toibin

Brooklyn
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Pan Macmillan Australia
Country
Australia
Published
1 February 2010
Pages
320
ISBN
9780330425612

Brooklyn

Colm Toibin

Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis’ gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the parish priest, Father Flood. Via a church contact, he arranges for Eilis to travel to America, where a job opportunity has arisen in New York with a reputable merchant of Italian origin.

Eilis finds lodgings in an eccentric boarding house and ekes out an existence in the cosmopolitan melting pot that is 1950s Brooklyn, impressing her employer, outwitting her landlady, and even falling in love. It seems her dream is truly becoming a reality. But then fate intervenes: a family crisis back home forces Eilis to make a choice between the past and the future, the old world and the new.

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