Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| International Dublin Literary Award | 2011 | Shortlist |
About This Book
Colm Tóibín's quietly devastating novel follows Eilis Lacey, a young woman from a small Irish town who emigrates to Brooklyn in the 1950s and must choose between her old life and her new one. Shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award.
About the Author
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, and critic born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford in 1955. He studied at University College Dublin and worked as a journalist in Barcelona before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of The South (1990), The Heather Blazing (1992), The Story of the Night (1996), The Blackwater Lightship (1999), The Master (2004), Brooklyn (2009), Nora Webster (2014), and House of Names (2017). Read more →
