02796cam a2200541 i 4500 1329433369 TxAuBib 20240612120000.0 141107t20152009||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781501106477 1501106473 TxAuBib rda Tóibín, Colm, 1955-, author. Brooklyn : a novel / Colm Tóibín. Scribner trade paperback edition. New York, New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2015. ©2009. 262 pages, 18 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier First published in hardcover by the same publisher in 2009. Includes a preview of Colm Toibin's novel Nora Webster. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In Ireland in the early 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one of many who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving behind her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a crowded boarding house where the landlady's intense scrutiny and the small jealousies of her fellow residents only deepen her isolation. Slowly, the pain of parting is buried beneath the rhythms of her new life -- and finally, she begins to realize that she has found a sort of happiness. As she falls in love, news comes from home that forces her back to Enniscorthy -- not to the constrictions of her old life, but to new possibilities which conflict deeply with the life she has left behind in Brooklyn. 20240612. Winner of Costa Book Award, 2009. Irish United States Fiction. Women immigrants Fiction. Irish. fast Women immigrants. fast Brooklyn (New York, N.Y) History 20th century Fiction. Ireland History 20th century Fiction. Ireland. fast New York (State) fast New York Brooklyn. United States. fast Psychological fiction. fast Psychological fiction. fast Bildungsromans. Love stories. Fiction. fast History. fast TXHSP