Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an ...
Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s, when one young woman crosses the ocean to make a new life for herself.
Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the years following World War Two. Though skilled at bookkeeping, she cannot find a job in the miserable Irish economy. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America--to live and work in a Brooklyn neighborhood "just like Ireland"--she decides she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind.
Eilis finds work in a department store on Fulton Street, and when she least expects it, finds love. Tony, a blond Italian from a big family, slowly wins her over with patient charm. He takes Eilis to Coney Island and Ebbets Field, and home to dinner in the two-room apartment he shares with his brothers and parents. He talks of having children who are Dodgers fans. But just as Eilis begins to fall in love with Tony, devastating news from Ireland threatens the promise of her future.
Colm Tóibín FRSL, is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and poet. Tóibín is currently Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University in Manhattan and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the University of Manchester.
It took me almost two months, off and on, reading this book.
"Tóibín leaves us with a renewed understanding that to emigrate is to become a foreigner in two places at once. " --NewYorker
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0 有用 Pluto 2023-03-01 19:20:23 北京
从大学开始看，第一次读没有读下去，接着这两周的通勤时间看完了
0 有用 游全 2017-09-30 06:31:16
记得是一年多前咖啡馆下班后顶着寒风走去附近Chapters买了这本。太多感同身受的桥段，感觉就像自己这前半生的缩影，没有顶着光环的主角，有的是一个对生活不安又坚定的柔软的人物，普普通通的人物在平平淡淡生活之下却是每个漂泊的人波澜内心的写照。
0 有用 又可以加个蛋了 2019-09-22 19:19:31
服了这女主了
0 有用 兔子不是我的专利，以后爱谁谁 2023-12-24 23:04:39 上海
用词不复杂，故事也很好懂，一个移民的故事，也是一个告别家乡独居在外闯荡的年轻人的故事，最后的结局有些仓促不是很喜欢，整体还行
0 有用 俪俪 2019-01-22 01:58:50
It took me almost two months, off and on, reading this book. "Tóibín leaves us with a renewed understanding that to emigrate is to become a foreigner in two places at once. " --NewYorker
0 有用 Kiki 2024-01-06 13:18:20 广东
哪有那么多选择，多数时候都是被生活推着走。
0 有用 兔子不是我的专利，以后爱谁谁 2023-12-24 23:04:39 上海
用词不复杂，故事也很好懂，一个移民的故事，也是一个告别家乡独居在外闯荡的年轻人的故事，最后的结局有些仓促不是很喜欢，整体还行
0 有用 Freak66 2023-12-23 00:47:24 北京
看过电影再看原著，觉得稍有些平淡了，但还是更喜欢书的结局。
0 有用 恰妮斯虫 2023-09-25 18:22:49 日本
如今对「To emigrate is to become a foreigner in two places at once.」这句话有了更深刻的体会。 I am nobody here.
0 有用 Pluto 2023-03-01 19:20:23 北京
从大学开始看，第一次读没有读下去，接着这两周的通勤时间看完了