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Brooklyn, a novel, Colm Tóibín

Label
Brooklyn, a novel, Colm Tóibín
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
Brooklyn
Responsibility statement
Colm Tóibín
Sub title
a novel
Summary
Eilis Lacey is unable to find a job in Ireland in the years following World War II. An Irish priest from Brooklyn, New York offers to sponser her to live and work in America, so she decides she must go leaving her mother and sister behind. She adapts to her new life by working in a department store and the pain of parting has subsided until she receives devastating news from home that threatens the promise of her future
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