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by Colm Toibin
From the award-winning author of Brooklyn and The Master, a powerful, brave, and moving novel set in Argentina.
In Argentina, in the time of the Generals, the streets are empty at night, and people have trained themselves not to see. Richard Garay lives with his mother, hiding his sexuality from her and from society. Stifled by his job, Richard is willing to take chances, both sexually and professionally. But Argentina is changing, and as his country edges toward peace, Richard tentatively begins a love affair. The result is a powerful, brave, and poignant novel of sex, death, and the difficulties of connecting one's inner life with the outside world.
"Tóibín's simple but eloquent telling of this personal story is sometimes explicit, often moving, and always vivid in its portrayal of Argentina and its people." —Library Journal (starred review)
"Written in a self-reflective style that rings with honesty, bravely constructing a complex metaphor of sex and death in Argentina." —New York Times
"Tóibín's genius is that he makes it impossible for us to walk away." —The New Yorker
"A love story of the most serious and difficult kind. [Tóibín] has told it with profound artistry and truth." —Tobias Wolff, author of Old School and This Boy's Life
"With near-geologic patience, Colm Tóibín allows the subterranean energies of this novel--political, sexual, and existential--to percolate to the surface. Just when we feel secure enough to peek over the rim, the volcano erupts. An impressive, beautifully modulated, unexpectedly affecting book." —Jeffrey Eugenides, author of Middlesex and The Virgin Suicides
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Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland.He was shortlisted three times for the Booker Prize. He was also awarded the Bodley Medal, the Würth Prize for European Literature, and the Prix Femina spécial for his body of work.
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