22nd October.
BorderKitchen will welcome Colm Tóibín (Ireland, 1955) – one of the most important contemporary Irish authors. Colm lives in Dublin and New York, where he teaches at Columbia University. He has won many prizes for his literary work, including the International Dublin Literary Award.During this evening, Tóibín will discuss his new book Long Island, the sequel to his successful work Brooklyn. In Long Island, he builds up a sizzling tension in a subdued tone.
Long Island
New York, 1970s. Irish Eilis Lacey has been living with her husband, Tony Fiorello, and children on Long Island for twenty years, a little too close to her in-laws. Until a shocking message drives Eilis back to Ireland, to a world she had long left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she had lost. ‘A masterful novel of longing and regret. A story of lovers meeting again, of compromise and resolution in old age.’ – Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain
