House of Names
"Brilliant…Tóibín's accomplishment here is to render myth plausible while at the same time preserving its high drama… gripping… The selfish side of human nature is… made tangible and graphic in Tóibín's lush prose." (Booklist, STARRED review)
Brooklyn : a Novel
The New York Times – Liesl Schillinger: Colm Toibin?is an expert, patient fisherman of submerged emotions?In tracking the experience, at the remove of half a century, of a girl as unsophisticated and simple as Eilis?a girl who permits herself no extremes of temperament, who accords herself no right to self-assertion?Toibin exercises sustained subtlety and touching […]