TOIBIN COLM

Ο μάγος (χαρτόδετη έκδοση)
Μετά τον Henry James, ο Colm Toibin επιλέγει να σκιαγραφήσει το πορτραίτο του γίγαντα της παγκόσμιας λογοτεχνίας Thomas Mann. Με καθηλωτική εγγύτητα και συγκινητικό βάθος ο Toibin, βιογραφεί τον Mann περισσότερο ως πατέρα, σύζυγο και πολίτη παρά ως λογοτέχνη. Η επιλογή αυτή φέρνει στο φως μια πληθώρα μυθιστορηματικών προσώπων τόσο από το στενό οικογενειακό περιβάλλον των Μann όσο και από τις λόχμες μιας συναρπαστικής εποχής. Εξορίες, αποδράσεις, σκάνδαλα, καταχρήσεις, αυτοχειρίες, δύο Παγκόσμιοι πόλεμοι, και μια Ευρώπη στις πιο δύσκολες μα...
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ΝΟΡΑ ΓΟΥΕΜΠΣΤΕΡ
"Σάστισε και η ίδια με τη σκληρή της απόφαση, πόσο εύκολα γύριζε την πλάτη σ' όλα εκείνα που είχε αγαπήσει, κι άφηνε τούτο το σπίτι στο δρομάκι που έβγαζε στο βράχο να το γνωρίσουν άλλοι, να έρθουν το καλοκαίρι και να το γεμίσουν με αλλιώτικους θορύβους. Κι όπως καθόταν και κοίταζε τον μπλάβο ουρανό πάνω από τη θάλασσα, αναστέναξε. Άφησε, εντέλει, τον εαυτό της ελεύθερο να νιώσει πόσα είχε χάσει, πόσα θα της έλειπαν. Βγήκε από το αυτοκίνητο, κράτησε κόντρα στον αέρα." ΙΡΛΑΝΔΙΑ, τέλη της δεκαετίας του 1960. Η Νόρα Γουέμπστερ ζει σε μια μικρ...
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(P/B) THE MAGICIAN
The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ravages of suicide. He would write some of the greatest works of European literature, and win the Nobel Prize, ...
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(H/B) Long Island
A man with an Irish accent knocks on Eilis Fiorello's door on Long Island and in that moment everything changes. Eilis and Tony have built a secure, happy life here since leaving Brooklyn - perhaps a little stifled by the in-laws so close, but twenty years married and with two children looking towards a good future. And yet this stranger will reveal something that will make Eilis question the life she has created. For the first time in years she suddenly feels very far from home and the revelation will see her turn towards Ireland once aga...
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(P/B) The Master
In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a power...
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(P/B) The Empty Family
In the captivating stories that make up The Empty Family Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history. '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.' From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of pe...
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ΜΠΡΟΥΚΛΙΝ
Στις αρχές της δεκαετίας του '50, σε μια μικρή πόλη της Ιρλανδίας, η Έιλις, ένα κορίτσι από φτωχή οικογένεια, όπως και οι περισσότεροι νέοι δυσκολεύεται να βρει δουλειά. Μόλις της προταθεί μια θέση στις ΗΠΑ καταλαβαίνει ότι δεν μπορεί να αρνηθεί, και αποφασίζει για πρώτη φορά να αφήσει πίσω την εύθραυστη μητέρα της και την αδερφή της. Η απόφασή της θα την οδηγήσει στο Μπρούκλιν όπου υπομονετικά θα χτίσει μια καινούργια ζωή γεμάτη όνειρα για το μέλλον της. Κι ενώ προσπαθεί να διαχειριστεί τη νοσταλγία που νιώθει για ό,τι άφησε πίσω της, θα ...
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(P/B) Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know
An intimate study of three of Ireland's greatest writers from one of its best-loved contemporary voices, Colm Toibin. In Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know Colm Toibin takes three of Ireland's greatest writers - Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce - and examines their earliest influences: their fathers. With his inimitable wit and sensitivity, Toibin introduces us to Wilde Senior, the philandering doctor whose libel case prefigured that of his son; the elder Yeats, an impoverished artist who never finished a painting; and to John Stanislaus ...
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ΚΑΡΑΒΟΦΑΝΑΡΟ ΣΤΟ ΜΑΥΡΟ ΝΕΡΟ
Μετά από χρόνια πικρής διαμάχης τρεις γυναίκες - η Ντόρα Ντέβερο, η κόρη της Λίλι και η εγγονή της Έλεν - υποχρεώνονται από τα γεγονότα να κάνουν ανακωχή. Ο πολυαγαπημένος αδελφός της Έλεν, ο Ντέκλαν, πεθαίνει και τις θέλει και τις τρεις κοντά του. Η παρουσία των δύο φίλων του θα λειτουργήσει καταλυτικά για όλους στο σύντομο διάστημα που θα συνυπάρξουν στο σπίτι της γιαγιάς. Άτομα από διαφορετικές γενιές, με διαφορετικές εμπειρίες και πεποιθήσεις, γίνονται μάρτυρες μιας οδυνηρής για όλους πορείας, και για πρώτη φορά ακούνε με προσοχή τα όσ...
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ΣΠΙΤΙ ΜΕ ΟΝΟΜΑΤΑ
"Της έκοψαν τα μαλλιά προτού την σύρουν στον τόπο της θυσίας. Της είχαν δεμένα τα χέρια σφιχτά πίσω στη ράχη, της κόρης μου, το δέρμα στους καρπούς καταγδαρμένο από τα σκοινιά, οι αστράγαλοί της δεμένοι. Το στόμα της το είχαν φιμώσει, για να μην καταριέται τον πατέρα της, τον άνανδρο, διπρόσωπο πατέρα της". Σε άγρια τοπία, που παραπέμπουν στις απομονωμένες περιοχές της Ιρλανδίας, ο Colm Toibin εμπνέεται από τους τρεις Τραγικούς προσδίδοντας στους χαρακτήρες της ελληνικής τραγωδίας το στοιχείο μιας απροσδόκητης ανθρωπιάς που θα μας στοιχειώ...
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(P/B) Brooklyn
Colm Toibin's Brooklyn is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. She is far from home - and homesick. And just as she t...
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(P/B) MOTHERS AND SONS
Colm Toibin's Mothers and Sons is a sensitive and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Toibin as a great prose stylist of our time...(from the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE TESTAMENT OF MARY
From the author of Brooklyn, in a voice that is both tender and filled with rage, The Testament of Mary tells the story of a cataclysmic event which led to an overpowering grief. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. As her life and her suffering begin to acquire the resonance of myth, Ma...
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(H/B) A GUEST AT THE FEAST
A Guest at the Feast uncovers the places where politics and poetics meet, where life and fiction overlap, where one can be inside writing and also outside of it. From the melancholy and amusement within the work of the writer John McGahern to an extraordinary essay on his own cancer diagnosis, Toibin 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 c...
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(P/B) THE MAGICIAN
From one of our greatest living writers comes a sweeping novel of unrequited love and exile, war and family. The Magician tells the story of Thomas Mann, whose life was filled with great acclaim and contradiction. He would find himself on the wrong side of history in the First World War, cheerleading the German army, but have a clear vision of the future in the second, anticipating the horrors of Nazism. He would have six children and keep his homosexuality hidden; he was a man forever connected to his family and yet bore witness to the ra...
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(P/B) BROOKLYN
It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. And just as she takes tentative steps towards friendship, and perhaps something more, Eilis receives news which sends her back to Ireland. There she will be confronted by a terrible dilemma - a devastating choice between duty and one great l...
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(P/B) THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP
In Blackwater in the early 1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and her granddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife and reached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying. Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by the sea, where the six of them, from different generations and with different beliefs, must listen and come to terms with one another. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) HOUSE OF NAMES
"They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her cowardly, two-tongued father. Nonetheless, they heard her muffled screams." On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later, he returns home and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence, as the...
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(P/B) THE MASTER
In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London. The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk. The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm T?ib?n captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love. It is a power...
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Η ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ ΤΗΣ ΜΑΡΙΑΣ
ΜΕ τρυφερότητα και θλίψη, με πικρία και οργή, η Μαρία καταθέτει τη δική της εκδοχή του συγκλονιστικού γεγονότος που υπήρξε καθοριστικό τόσο για την ίδια όσο και για την ανθρωπότητα. Γερασμένη, καταπονημένη και εξόριστη, η Μαρία αγνοεί την παράμετρο ανθρωπότητα. Για κείνη μετράει ότι το παιδί της πέθανε με τρόπο σκληρό και απάνθρωπο για έναν απροσδιόριστο σκοπό, σε μια εποχή αλλαγών και ανακατατάξεων. ΚΑΘΩΣ η ζωή της έχει αρχίσει να παίρνει μυθικές διαστάσεις, η Μαρία αποφασίζει να μιλήσει. Μέσα από τη σπαρακτική αφήγηση των γεγονότων αναδύ...
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