{"product_id":"the-empty-family-9781439195963","title":"The Empty Family","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling and award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, Colm Tóibín, returns with a stunning collection of stories--\"a book that's both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 ).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eColm Tóibín is the author of ten novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Magician\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; \u003ci\u003eThe Master\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; \u003ci\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Costa Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Testament of Mary\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Nora Webster\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the laureate for Irish fiction for 2022-2025 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726575178002,"sku":"9781439195963","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_219deccc-dd1c-410a-80dd-107ce5facc39.jpg?v=1734875564","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-empty-family-9781439195963","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}