In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey
is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So
when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Leaving
her family and home, Eilis sets off to forge a new life for herself in
Brooklyn. Young, homesick and alone, she gradually buries the pain of
parting beneath the rhythms of a new life - days at the till in a large
department store, night classes in Brooklyn College and Friday evenings
on the dance floor of the parish hall - until she realizes that she has
found a sort of happiness. But when tragic news summons her back to
Ireland, and the constrictions of her old life unexpectedly give way to
new possibilities, she finds herself facing a terrible choice: between
love and happiness in the land where she belongs and the promises she
must keep on the far side of the ocean.
Brooklyn
is a tender story of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking
choice between personal freedom and duty. In the character of Eilis
Lacey Colm Tóibín has created a remarkable heroine and in Brooklyn a
novel of devastating emotional power
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