{"product_id":"9781668212714","title":"A Long Winter","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product__overview-column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvailable for the first time in a beautiful stand-alone edition, one of Colm Tóibín's finest short stories and \"the most striking example of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eTóibín\u003cb\u003e's emotional control\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Long Winter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis set in the mountains of Catalonia in Spain--this edition includes a new afterword by the author on how he came to write the story.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan Pyrenees upon completing his military service. His younger brother, Jordi, will be departing for his service a week after Miquel's arrival. He will be gone for two years. Miquel notices their mother's increasingly erratic behavior and understands that she is drinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product__overview-column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs she becomes increasingly unstable, her husband resorts to drastic measures. Unable to abide his betrayal and her own grief, she walks off into the mountains. A blizzard sets in and the search for her is futile. No one will find her until the spring thaw arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA gorgeous story of loss, grief, and longing, \"A Long Winter\" describes an extraordinary bond between a mother and son and a haunting portrait of a family in crisis. Tóibín's powers of imagination and transfixing emotional insight are on full display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Colm Toibin","offers":[{"title":"Hardback \/ Literary Fiction","offer_id":54297264554208,"sku":null,"price":15.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/Screenshot2026-08-20at1.10.25PM.png?v=1787242231","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9781668212714","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}