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Colm Tóibín (se pronuncia [ˈkɔl̪ˠəmˠ t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ]; 1955) es un premiado novelista y periodista irlandés. Juventud Colm Tóibín nació en Enniscorthy, en el Condado de Wexford, en el sudeste de Irlanda en 1955. Era el segundo más joven de cinco hermanos. Su abuelo, Patrick Tobin, fue miembro del Irish Republican Army (IRA), al igual que su tío abuelo Michael Tobin. Patrick Tobin participó en 1916 en la rebelión en Enniscorthy y como consecuencia fue encarcelado en Frongoch en Gales. El padre de Colm Tóibín era profesor y tuvo estrecho contacto con el partido Fianna Fáil de Enniscorthy. Tóibín recibió su educación media en el St Peter's College, de Wexford, donde estuvo interno entre 1970 y 1972. Continuó sus estudios en la University College Dublin, graduándose en 1975. Inmediatamente después de licenciarse, partió hacia Barcelona, donde residió entre 1975 y 1978. Carrera De retorno a Irlanda en 1978, comenzó a estudiar un máster. Sin embargo, no presentó la tesis y abandonó el mundo académico, por lo menos en parte, para continuar una carrera en el periodismo. El principio de la década de 1980 fue un periodo especialmente brillante en el periodismo irlandés y el apogeo de la revista mensual de noticias Magill. Tóibín se convirtió en el editor de la revista en 1982 y permaneció en el puesto hasta 1985. La primera novela de Tóibín, The South, escrita en la década de 1990, estuvo parcialmente inspirada en su estancia en Barcelona; al igual que su ensayo Homage to Barcelona (1990). A The Heather Blazing (1992), su segunda novela, le siguió The Story of the Night (1996) y The Blackwater Lightship (1999). Su quinta novela, The Master (2004), es un relato ficticio de partes de la vida del autor Henry James. En 2006 publicó su primera colección de relatos cortos con el título Mothers and Sons, que recibió críticas favorables (incluyendo la de Pico Iyer en el The New York Times). Es autor de otros libros de ensayo: Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border (1994) (reimpresión de la edición original de 1987) y The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe (1994). Su obra de teatro Beauty in a Broken Place fue estrenada en Dublín en agosto de 2004. Ha continuado trabajando como periodista tanto en Irlanda como en el extranjero. También ha conseguido una cierta fama como crítico literario: ha editado un libro sobre Paul Durcan, The Kilfenora Teaboy (1997); ha escrito The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999); The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950 (1999), junto con Carmen Callil; una colección de ensayos Love in A Dark Time: Gay lives from Wilde to Almodóvar (2002); y un estudio sobre Lady Gregory, Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (2002). Tóibín, que es miembro de Aosdána, ha sido profesor interino en la Universidad de Stanford, la Universidad de Texas en Austin y la Universidad de Princeton. También ha enseñado en varias otras universidades, incluyendo el Boston College, la Universidad de Nueva York y The College of the Holy Cross. En 2008 recibió un doctor honoris causa por la Universidad del Ulster, en reconocimiento por su contribución a la literatura irlandesa contemporánea. Temas La obra de Tóibín explora principalmente diversos temas concretos: la descripción de la sociedad irlandesa, vivir en el extranjero, el proceso de la creación y la preservación de la identidad personal, enfocándose principalmente en las identidades homosexuales —Tóibín es abiertamente gay—;[1] pero también sobre la identidad frente a la pérdida. Las novelas de «Wexford», The Heather Blazing y The Blackwater Lightship, usa el pueblo de Enniscorthy, su pueblo natal, como material narrativo, junto con la historia de Irlanda y la muerte de su padre. Un relato autobiográfico y sus reflexiones sobre el hecho se pueden leer en el ensayo The Sign of the Cross. Dos otras novelas, The Story of the Night y The Master, giran en torno a personajes que han de abordar una identidad homosexual y que ocurren fuera de Irlanda en su mayor parte, con un personaje arreglándoselas para vivir en el extranjero. Su primera novela, The South, parece tener ingredientes de ambas líneas de trabajo. Se puede leer junto con The Heather Blazing como un díptico sobre la herencia protestante y católica del condado de Wexford, o se puede agrupar con las novelas sobre «vivir en el extranjero». Un tercer tema que une The South y The Heather Blazing es el de la creación. De la pintura en el primer caso y de la cuidadosa redacción de un veredicto judicial en el segundo. Esta tercera línea temática culmina en The Master, un estudio sobre la identidad, precedido por un ensayo sobre el mismo tema, Love in A Dark Time. Premios La novela The Heather Blazing recibió en 1993 el Encore Award por la segunda novela de un autor. La novela The Blackwater Lightship estvo entre las novelas finalistas para el Premio Booker de 1999 y el International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award de 2001. La novela The Master ganó en 2006 el International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, estuvo entre los finalistas para el Premio Booker de 2004, ganó el premio «novela del año» de Los Angeles Times, el Stonewall Book Award y el Lambda Literary Award, y entró en la lista de «los 10 libros más importantes de 2004» de The New York Times. Obra Ficción El sur, Emecé, 2003 (The South, 1990) El brezo en llamas, Anaya & Mario Muchnik, 1994 (The Heather Blazing, 1992) Crónica de la noche, Emecé, 1998 (The Story of the Night, 1996) El faro de Blackwater, Edhasa, 2002 (The Blackwater Lightship, 1999) The master : retrato del novelista adulto, Edhasa, 2006 (The Master, 2004) Mothers and Sons, 2006 Brooklyn, 2009 The Empty Family, 2010, ISBN 978-0-670-91817-1 The Testament of Mary, 2012, ISBN 978-1451688382 Nora Webster, Scribner, 2014, ISBN 978-1439138335 No ficción Walking Along the Border, 1987 Martyrs and Metaphors, 1987 The Trials of the Generals: Selected Journalism, 1990 Homenatge a Barcelona, Columna, 2003, (Homage to Barcelona, 1990) . Dubliners, 1990 Mala sangre: peregrinación a lo largo de la frontera irlandesa, Península, 1998 (Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border, 1994) La señal de la cruz, viaje al fondo del catolicismo europeo, Anaya & Mario Muchnik, 1996 (The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe, 1994) El amor en tiempos oscuros y otras historias de vidas y literatura gay, Taurus, 2003 (Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives From Wilde to Almodovar, 2002) Lady Gregory's Toothbrush, 2002 Un llarg hivern, La campana, 2007 El Mag,Amsterdam, 2022 Como editor The Guinness Book of Ireland, 1995 The Kilfenora Teaboy: A Study of Paul Durcan, 1996 The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction, 1999 En colaboración The Modern Library: The Two Hundred Best Novels in English Since 1950, 1999, con Carmel Callil Referencias Ryan, Ray. Ireland and Scotland: Literature and Culture, State and Nation, 1966-2000. Oxford University Press, 2002. 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The Cider House Rules
John Irving'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orphanage was forced to acknowledge Homer's int...
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Undercurrent
Barney Norris'Lyrical' Daily Mail'Beautiful' Spectator'Skilled' Financial Times'Vulnerable' Guardian'Deft' Independent'Profound' Observer'The beginning of summer. Perhaps it crosses my mind eve...
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Aquarium
David Vann'Startlingly brilliant' Spectator'A triumph' Daily Mail'One of America's most powerful writers' Times Literary Supplement Twelveyearold Caitlin lives alone with her mother a docke...
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The Ice Child
Elizabeth McGregorJo Harper, a successful young journalist, has only her adored twoyearold son, Sam, to remind her of her late partner. When Sam falls ill, there is only one slim hope that his step...
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The Deportees
Roddy DoyleFor the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Ireland. Each of the stories took a new slant on ...
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The Romantic
William BoydSoldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.One man, many lives.Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad lives: joyous and devastating, years of luck and unexpected ...
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From a Low and Quiet Sea
Donal RyanLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully crafted novel' RODDY DOYLEFarouk's country has been tor...
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Hades, Argentina
Daniel Loedel'An astonishingly powerful novel about the complex nature of guilt' Colm Tóibín'Remarkable . . . It will stay with me for a very long time' Kamila ShamsieA decade after fleeing for...
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Fair Game
LIZ YOUNGUp to her eyes with her friends' dramas, Harriet Grey has no time for her own. Let alone getting entangled with John Mackenzie. He might be the most gorgeous man she's met for ages...
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Upstate
James WoodUpstate is a funny, moving family drama from one of the world’s most influential literary critics.‘Thoughtful and thoughprovoking’ Financial TimesAlan Querry, a successful property...
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The Women Behind the Door
Roddy DoyleBookerPrize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic heroine, Paula Spencer'The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives'SUNDAY TIMES‘Brilliant…passionate, funny and huma...
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The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah LevyLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 'An icecold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe' The Times 'It...
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A Cruel Madness
Colin ThubronWhen a parttime worker in a mental hospital meets his old girlfriend inside he is not sure at first is she is a patient. Their reunion is haunted and haunting, and from the memory ...
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Solo Faces
James SalterRand lives free; lean, pure and defiant, the world has little influence on him. His passion is climbing – the mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rock...
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After the Party
Cressida Connolly'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my life...'It is the summer of 1938 and Phyllis Forrester has retur...
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Prophet Song
Paul LynchWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZEA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CH...
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Names of the Women
Jeet Thayil'Dazzling' MARLON JAMES, BOOKER PRIZE WINNER'Original and thoughtprovoking' SPECTATOR'Electrifying' TESSA HADLEY Under a predawn sky, humming with starlight and the songs of birds,...
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Imagine Me Gone
Adam HaslettShortlisted for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 20172017 PULITZER PRIZE Finalist for Fiction TIME Top Ten Novels of 2016 'It might be the best American novel about a middle...
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The Colony
Audrey MageeSHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE KERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022'Vivid and memorable.' SARAH MOSS'Luminous.' Observ...
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Separate Rooms
Pier Vittorio Tondelli & Simon Pleasance'A novel of dignified beauty'OBSERVER'A masterly piece of writing, rich with insight and detail, and a curiously moving optimism'GAY TIMES'A discreet, lyrical meditation on the nat...
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The New Confessions
William BoydWilliam Boyd's new novel, The Romantic, is available to preorder now'Brilliant. A Citizen Kane of a novel' Daily TelegraphMeet John James Todd:Scotsman, auteur, Rousseaufanatic an...
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A Modest Proposal and Other Writings
Jonathan Swift & Carole FabricantThe political dilemma of Ireland; the state of faith in England; the charms of the Beggar's Opera; the importance of puns . . . This selection gathers together some of Swift's most...
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The Message from Lindisfarne
Salley Vickers'A wonderful book. Salley Vickers spins a spellbinding account of a family in distress' Elizabeth Strout on 'Cousins'Spring, 1918. Nineyearold Charlotte Tye wakes up unusually earl...
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Selected Stories
Rudyard KiplingThis collection opens with The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, the first story Kipling published as a young journalist in india, and ends with an acknowledged masterpiece, The Gardene...
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Madre Irlanda
Edna O'BrienEl retrato de una vida y un país, por «la escritora de lengua inglesa con más talento de nuestros días» (Philip Roth); «simplemente, una de las mejores de nuestro tiempo» (John Ban...
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Baumgartner
Paul AusterA tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers.The life of Sy Baumgartner noted author, and soontobe retired philosophy professor has been de...
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The Lambing Season
John ConnellA hymn to the rituals of farming life from the bestselling Irish author of The Farmer's Son.For John Connell, the lambing season on his County Longford farm begins in the autumn. I...
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Fallen
Lia MillsFallen by Lia Mills a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War and the Easter RisingSpring, 1915. Katie Crilly gets the news she dreaded: her beloved twin bro...
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Heroes and Villains
Angela CarterSharpeyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live ...
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Portrait of an Unknown Lady
María Gainza & Thomas BunsteadIn this dazzling story of art and illusion, secrets and schemes, who is to be trusted and what is real?From the internationally acclaimed author of Optic Nerve A TLS Book of the Y...
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Funny Boy
Shyam Selvadurai'An extraordinarily powerful, deeply moving novel' Amitav GhoshNOW A MAJOR FILM ON NETFLIX In the world of his large family affluent Tamils living in Colombo Arjie is an oddity, ...
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Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
Colm TóibínAn intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its bestloved contemporary voices, Colm TóibínIn Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Tóibín takes three of Ireland...
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The Last Wolf & Herman
László Krasznahorkai, John Batki & George SzirtesNow in paperback, two novellas from the Hungarian master László Krasznahorkai“one of the most mysterious artists now at work” (Colm Toíbín) The Last Wolf (translated by George...
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The Minutes of the Lazarus Club
Tony PollardLondon, 1857 – the Lazarus Club. Some of the finest, mostunconventional minds in Victorian Britain – including Charles Darwin, Charles Babbage and Isambard Kingdom Brunel – are mem...
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A Mile Down
David VannDavid Vann has loved boats all his life. So when his academic career seems to be stuck in the doldrums, he leaps at the opportunity to start an educational charter business, teachi...
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Great Expectations
Charles Dickens & Charlotte Mitchell'His novels will endure as long as the language itself' Peter AckroydDickens's haunting late novel depicts the education and development of a young man, Pip, as his life is changed...
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Homegoing
Yaa GyasiA BBC Top 100 Novels that Shaped Our WorldEffia and Esi: two sisters with two very different destinies. One sold into slavery; one a slave trader's wife. The consequences of their ...
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Evangelista's Fan
Rose Tremain‘A master class in the art of storytelling’ ObserverThis short story collection demonstrates the enormous range of Tremain’s talent and imagination. The teasing and brilliant title...
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Blue Ruin
Hari KunzruIt's the 1990's, and Jay is an artist tipped for greatness. Shortly after graduating from his London art school, a promising career is already taking shape before him. Despite the ...
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Homesickness
Colin Barrett‘A mesmerisingly powerful book’ SALLY ROONEYIlluminating the lives of outcasts, misfits and malcontents, this is the darkly funny and moving second book from the awardwinning autho...
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The Master
Colm TóibínThe Master es la inimitable mirada de un espléndido escritor, Colm Tóibín, a la vida de uno de los artistas más emblemáticos: Henry James.Podemos imaginarlo por las calles de Londr...
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Death in Venice
Thomas MannA famous author in his early fifties travels to Venice alone and succumbs to a deep obsession with an exquisitely beautiful adolescent boy in Thomas Mann's iconic novella.Featuring...
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Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
Roald DahlThe sweet scents of rural life infuse Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a collection of Roald Dahl's country stories but there is always something unexpected lurking in the undergrow...
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Long Island
Colm Tóibín«TÓIBÍN EN SU MEJOR VERSIÓN». THE TIMESLa emocionante continuación de Brooklyn, ganadora del Premio Costa Book, mejor libro del año segúnThe Guardian, The Daily Telegraph,TheSunday...
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
John Boyne'A bold, funny epic' Observer'Compelling and satisfying . . . At times, incredibly funny, at others, heartrending' Sarah Winman, author of Still LifeCyril Avery is not a real Avery...
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Olive, Again
Elizabeth StroutFrom the Pulitzer Prizewinning, Number One New York Times bestselling author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith'A superbly gifted storyte...
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Doctor Faustus
Thomas MannA masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.Adrian Leverkühn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer creative and brill...
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Oxygen
Andrew Miller'ANDREW MILLER'S WRITING IS A SOURCE OF WONDER AND DELIGHT' Hilary Mantel 'ONE OF OUR MOST SKILFUL CHRONICLERS OF THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND' Sunday TimesShortlisted for the Booker P...
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Tremor
Teju ColeLife is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects o...
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Lucky Every Day
Bapsy JainLately, Lucky's life has seen nothing but trouble. Her marriage to the wealthy and charming Vikram ended badly, and along with it, her career as a successful entrepreneur. It's tim...