Long Island

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One of the Globe and Mail‘s most anticipated books of 2024

The sequel to the prize-winning, bestselling novel Brooklyn.

A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello’s door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn—perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future.
    And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind. Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?
    Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.One of the Globe and Mail‘s most anticipated books of 2024

“[Long Island] is a story of transformation, but equally of doubt—of what remains unsaid and undecided, and how it wreaks havoc on not only the characters’ relationships but their identities. . . . Long Island approaches these themes with Tóibín’s deft eye for detail, creating a story that is altogether painful and maddening to witness—and yet impossible to turn away from.”
—Shelf Awareness, Maximum Shelf featureCOLM TÓIBÍN was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of ten novels, three of which were nominated for the Booker Prize; two collections of stories; and many works of non-fiction. His most recent novel, The Magician, was a top ten bestseller and won the Rathbones Folio Prize. In 2021 he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature.CA