{"product_id":"the-empty-family-9781439195963","title":"The Empty Family","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the heels of his bestselling and award-winning novel Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín returns with a stunning collection of stories--\"a book that's both a perfect introduction to Tóibín and, for longtime fans, a bracing pleasure\" ( The Seattle Times ).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCritics praised Brooklyn as a \"beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s.\" In The Empty Family, Tóibín has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters--people linked by love, loneliness, desire--\"the unvarying dilemmas of the human heart\" ( The Observer, UK).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the breathtaking long story \"The Street,\" Tóibín imagines a relationship between Pakistani workers in Barcelona--a taboo affair in a community ruled by obedience and silence. In \"Two Women,\" an eminent and taciturn Irish set designer takes a job in her homeland and must confront emotions she has long repressed. \"Silence\" is a brilliant historical set piece about Lady Gregory, who tells the writer Henry James a confessional story at a dinner party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Empty Family will further cement Tóibín's status as \"his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power\" ( Los Angeles Times ).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42978058993830,"sku":"9781439195963","price":14.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/the-empty-family-9781439195963-31949625753778.jpg?v=1656105532","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/the-empty-family-9781439195963","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}