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Brooklyn (Penguin Essentials #75)

作者:Toibin, Colm

出版社:Penguin U.K.

出版日期:2022.12.01

ISBN:9780241983782

書號:20276621

裝訂:平裝

定價:$450

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內容簡介
遠從愛爾蘭的恩尼斯柯西,告別母親與最好的朋友南西,獨自一人來到美國求生的艾莉絲.萊西,在紐約的布魯克林落腳,在這個大城市經歷被室友排擠的孤獨、對家的思念,也在機緣下認識義大利裔的東尼‧費歐列羅,體會人生首次的初戀。
 
因家中傳來長輩去世的噩耗,艾莉絲返鄉時成為老家人們眼中的「美國風女子」,全身散發一股都市氣息的她,儼然已不是當時離家的青澀少女。艾莉絲發現自己始終對家園充滿依戀;而當平時寡言木訥、繼承老家酒吧事業的吉姆‧法洛,鼓起勇氣向她求婚,艾莉絲開始動搖,究竟該留在熟悉卻又有點疏遠的家鄉,還是選擇不要回頭,繼續在紐約這個大都市闖蕩?
 
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.
 
Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.
作者介紹
Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland.In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature.