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Nick Duerden introduces the work of Irish writer Colm Tóibín, from his debut novel to his latest work, Brooklyn sequel Long Island.
Over a thirty year career, Colm Tóibín has come, rightly, to be regarded as one of Ireland’s greatest novelists. He’s proved remarkably consistent, too: eleven novels, no duds, each a deeply wrought, deeply felt, work, his writing filled with characters who yearn for better understanding and acceptance, and sometimes escape and even reinvention. Ireland has long been fertile ground for writers: all that repression and religion; a complicated past easier to read about on the page than to speak out loud. Tóibín was never going to run out of material here.
He has produced novels and short story collections, plays and screenplays, and has won the Encore Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the International Dublin Literary Award, the Folio Prize and many more, his mantelpiece a snaking bus queue of trophies. If 2009’s Brooklyn was his breakout hit – it won him the Costa Novel Award, and sold 350,000 copies before being made into a film starring Saoirse Ronan – then The Magician, about the life of the German writer Thomas Mann, confirmed him a master. Now in his seventieth year, Tóibín is about to publish perhaps his most elegant and wistful novel to date. Cause for celebration, then.
What is Colm Tóibín’s new book?
It seems that few people can resist a follow-up to a much-beloved book, not least the writers that create them. In Long Island, Tóibín returns to familiar territory with a sequel to the best-selling Brooklyn.
Watch a behind-the-scenes reading from actor Jessie Buckley, who narrates the audiobook of Long Island