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Christmas - a time for peace, joy and Mammies.

While others are focusing on Santa/Santy, the school nativity play, the office party and its wild cousin the Twelve Pubs, panicked present shopping and the delicate diplomacy of in-law visiting, the Irish Mammy is mobilized in her war-room - ready for the campaign. Electric blankets have been set to maximum power; cards have been despatched; the turkey has been ordered; the decorations have been retrieved from the Place Where The Decorations Go and the fifth Big Shop (to get breadcrumbs) has been completed.

There are homecomings...

In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel, who are her keepers. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was "worth it"; nor that the...

Critics praised Brooklyn as a "beautifully rendered portrait of Brooklyn and provincial Ireland in the 1950s." In The Empty Family, Toibin has extended his imagination further, offering an incredible range of periods and characters--people linked by love, loneliness, desire--"the unvarying...

"One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go,...

Im geheimnisvollen Haus der Namen findet Orestes Zuflucht vor dem neuen Mann seiner Mutter. Diese hat nach der Opferung ihrer Tochter ihren Ehemann ermordet. Deswegen wird sie nun von ihrem Sohn Orestes und seiner Schwester Elektra angefeindet. Es beginnt ein blutiges Rachespiel zwischen Mutter, Tochter und zurückgekehrtem Sohn. Immer tiefer gerät Orestes zwischen die Fronten. Und dann ist da noch seine Liebe zu Leandros, die ihn vor eine Zerreißprobe stellt. »Grausam und quälend glaubhaft« (The Guardian) zeichnet Tóibín das Porträt einer zerrissenen Familie und einer...