The Empty Family av Colm Toibin

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<p>In the captivating stories that make up <i>The Empty Family</i> Colm T¿ib¿delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. <br><br><i>''I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.''<br></i><br>From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence each of T¿ib¿'s stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.<br><br>''Exquisite . . . The chief reason to read these stories is the peculiar power of Colm T¿ib¿'s prose'' <i>Telegraph</i