The Empty Family: Stories
Format: kindle
ASIN: B003UV8TAE
Publish date: January 4th 2011
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 293
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Irish Literature,
Contemporary,
Ireland,
Short Stories,
Glbt,
Queer
Too lazy to check on chronology/influences, but either Colm Toibin is Ireland's Ethan Canin or Ethan Canin is America's Colm Toibin.Not in a derivative and negative way. They just remind me of each other: the style, the themes, the motifs (motives? surely not), the structuring of the stories. Very...
I love Tóibín's sensitivity and attention to detail. These stories ache.
I really liked this book. Toibin writes in a sparse, quiet fashion but it hits home. The last story, "The Street" was absolutely beautiful. Toibin's portrayal of Pakistani immigrant men living in Madrid was spot on. Reading it was so authentic that I would have mistaken Toibin for being a South Asia...
I read one Toibin novel, which I loved (The Master) and one volume of short stories which I liked (Mothers and Sons). This volume of short stories about alienation amongst family members was, on the whole, disappointing. The few gems were Silence, The Pearl Fishers, and The Colour of Shadows. While ...
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