{"product_id":"the-empty-familybooks","title":"The Empty Family","description":"On the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, Colm Tóibín returns with a stunning collection of stories—now available in paperback—“a book that’s both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure” ( \u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e ).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCritics praised \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e as a “beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.” In \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/i\u003e, Tóibín has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters—people linked by love, loneliness, desire—“the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart” ( \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e, UK). \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Reviewed on the front page of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/i\u003e will further cement Tóibín’s status as “his generation’s most gifted writer of love’s complicated, contradictory power” ( \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e ).","brand":"Toibin, Colm","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44485414289632,"sku":"","price":9.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0f1abb81-3ea6-43c6-ac0c-de64c765ac60.jpg?v=1702564155","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/the-empty-familybooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}