The South: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 147670449X
- ISBN-13
- 9781476704494
- Series
- The South
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10-30
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Colm Tóibín
Description
A highly acclaimed novel from the author of Brooklyn and an “immensely gifted and accomplished writer” (The Washington Post), about an Irishwoman who creates a new life in post-war Spain. In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish émigré in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought she knew. The South is a novel of classic themes—of art and exile, and of the seemingly irreconcilable yearnings for love and freedom—to which Colm Tóibín brings a new, passionate sensitivity.
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- 2018-10-31
- 618 pages
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