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 […]