Colm Tóibín Libros

Situada en la Irlanda de finales del siglo XX, esta novela nos relata la historia de la familia Deveroux. Tras varios años sin apenas dirigirse la palabra, las tres protagonistas de esta novela, Dora, su hija Lily y su nieta Helen, se ven obligadas a desnudar sus almas cuando Declan, el hermano de Helen, les pide que le acompañen en los días que le pueda conceder aún el sida. La sensibilidad y la naturalidad con se que desarrolla la trama hacen de esta novela una lectura fascinante y de gran interés humano. Una novela intensa sobre las costumbres y la moral y sobre los conflictos culturales, generacionales y personales. Esta novela fue elegida como uno de los libros más importantes del año por el "New York Times y fue finalista del premio Booker, lo que le valió al autor el elogio de la crítica y de algunos de los más importantes escritores como, Don DeLillo, Michael Cunningham, David Lodge...

Novelist and critic Colm Tóibín provides “a fascinating exploration of writers and their families” ( Entertainment Weekly ) and “an excellent guide through the dark terrain of unconscious desires” ( The Evening Standard ) in this brilliant collection of essays that explore the relationships of writers to their families and their work.Colm Tóibín—celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays—traces the intriguing, often twisted family ties of writers in the books they leave behind.Through the relationship between W. B. Yeats and his father, Thomas Mann and his children, Jane Austen and her aunts, and Tennessee Williams and his sister, Tóibín examines a world of relations, richly comic or savage in their implications. Acutely perceptive and imbued with rare tenderness and wit, New Ways to Kill Your Mother is a fascinating look at writers’ most influential bonds and a secret key to understanding and enjoying their work.

From one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France.Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.

Toibin's remarkable insights provide scholars, students, and general readers a fresh encounter with James's well-known texts.

A collection of short stories that explores the complex relationships between mothers and their sons.

From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Tóibín 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 intricacies of Marilynne Robinson's fiction

This list of 194 books published since 1950 represent titles considered the best by the compilers. There are familiar names - Naipaul, Updike , Bellow and Nabokov - and more surprising ones such as Mario Puzo and Thomas Harris.

A love story full of honesty and truth, Colm Toibin portrays a difficult relationship during dark times.

In the summer after the Anglo-Irish Agreement, when tension was high in Northern Ireland, Colm Tóibín walked along the Irish border from Derry to Newry. Bad Blood is a stark and evocative account of this journey through fear and hatred, and a report on ordinary life and the legacy of history in a bleak and desolate landscape. Tóibín describes the rituals – the marches, the funerals, the demonstrations – observed by both communities along the border, and listens to the stories which haunt both sides. With sympathy and insight Bad Blood captures the intimacy of life along one of the most dangerous strips of land in Western Europe.

A novel inspired by the writings of Thomas Mann, including his childhood, his wife Katia, and the times is which they lived -- the First World War, the rise of Hitler, World War II, the Cold War, and exile.