Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabea, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabea loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn M[...]

A sequence of nine short works by the award-winning author of The Master explores the intricate bonds between mothers and sons as reflected at pivotal junctures that shift the way each sees and understands the other, from a famous singer's performance for an audience that includes her son to a son's[...]

From the award-winning author of "The Master," a hauntingly compelling novel--by far Toibin's most accessible book--set in Brooklyn and Ireland in the early 1950s about a young woman torn between her family in Ireland and the american who wins her heart.
Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town[...]

"One of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary literature" ("Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"), Eilis Lacey has come of age in small-town Ireland in the hard years following World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she decides she must go, leaving her [...]

Meryl Streep's performance of Colm Toibin's acclaimed portrait of Mary is hailed by the "New York Times Book Review" as "an ideal audiobook," presenting the three-time Academy Award-winner in "yet another great role."
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Colm Toibin's "The Testament of Mary "pr[...]

Novelist and critic Colm Toibin explores the relationships of writers with their families and their work in the brilliant, nuanced, and wholly original "New Ways to Kill Your Mother."
Toibin--celebrated both for his award-winning fiction and his provocative book reviews and essays--traces the in[...]

In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel, who are her keepers. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was "worth it"; nor that the "group of misfits he gathe[...]

"No book since Mrs Shelley's Frankenstein, or indeed any other at all has come near yours in originality, or terror - Poe is nowhere...". (Charlotte Stoker, Mother of Bram Stoker). Originally published in 1897, Bram Stoker's "Dracula" has spawned countless new editions, inspired over fifty films, an[...]

In the first decade of the new millennium, Jody Allen Randolph interviewed twenty-two leading Irish poets, artists, fiction writers and playwrights to create a record of how the makers of a culture saw their country as it moved into a new era. Her exploration was shadowed by intimations of unease; a[...]

Here is an American mind contemplating contemporary society and culture with wit, imagination, and a brave intelligence. Tillman upends expectations, shifts tone, introduces characters, breaches limits of genre and category, reconfiguring the world with the turn of a sentence. Like other unique thin[...]

Nuori Eilis Lacey joutuu monien irlantilaistyttöjen tavoin jättämään kotinsa ja muuttamaan Amerikkaan, koska Irlannissa ei ole tarjolla töitä.Uudessa maassa Eilis potee aluksi koti-ikävää ja vierauden tunnetta. Hänellä on kuitenkin töitä tavaratalon myyjättärenä, ja hän asuu irlant[...]