Brooklyn

By:

Toibin, Colm

Series: Penguin Essentials #75Publication details: Great Britain: Penguin Books, 2018Description: 249p.: pbk.: 18 cmISBN:

9780241983782

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

823.914 TOI

Summary: It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133214/brooklyn-by-toibin-colm/9780241983782

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Books	IIT Gandhinagar	General	823.914 TOI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	035175

It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.

Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great love.

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/133214/brooklyn-by-toibin-colm/9780241983782

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