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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 emigre in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought...

"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,...

Colm Tóibíns großer Roman über Thomas Mann

Von der Kindheit in Lübeck bis zur Heirat in München, von der Gegnerschaft gegen die Nazis bis zum amerikanischen Exil. Über die vielen Gesichter des weltberühmten Autors und Familienvaters, der sein Gefühlsleben verborgen hielt, innerlich zerrissen zwischen Begehren und Pflichtgefühl, zwischen Bürgerlichkeit und künstlerischer Askese, wurde selten so feinfühlig, empathisch und sachte geschrieben. Ein Künstlerroman, wie man ihn in Deutschland noch nie gelesen hat.

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...

A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Toibin delineates the bleakness and strangeness of life and also its richness and its complexity. As he reveals the shades of light and dark in a Venice without tourists and the streets of Buenos Aires riddled with disappearances, we find ourselves considering law and religion in Ireland as well as...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZEFrom one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism.

He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever...

Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Toibin's magnificent seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable, and deeply moving Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who...