{"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 ).","brand":"Colm Toibin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47954203017499,"sku":"9781439195963","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/products\/the-empty-family-sapphic-society-31867.jpg?v=1751752274","url":"https:\/\/sapphicsociety.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-empty-family-9781439195963","provider":"Sapphic Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}