Mothers and Sons
To be released: September 1 2006 in UK and January 2007 in US."Colm Toibin's new and challenging collection of stories paint rich and textured portraits of individuals at different pivotal moments in their lives. In each case, Toibin shows how their relationship with either a mother or a son, or their relationship to their own role as mother or son, reveals something unique and important about them. The stories feature Ireland or Irish narrators, but they are also truly universal. In "Famous Blue Raincoat", unwelcome memories are stirred when a mother, once a singer in an Irish folk-rock band of some popular renown in the 60s, finds that her son has been listening to their old records - songs she hoped never to hear again. In "Water", a son buries his mother and goes out to a drug-fuelled rave on a remote beach outside Dublin. In the course of this one night, his grief and desire for raw feeling combine with exquisite and devastating intensity. At once beautifully playful, psychologically intricate, emotionally incisive, finely-wrought and fearless these stories tease out the delicate and difficult strands which are woven between mothers and sons. Sometimes shocking and always powerful, this masterful new collection confirms Toibin as great prose stylist of our time." - Amazon.co.ukNote New Calendar dates for Belfast, London and Dublin this August.A Long Winter
Colm Toibin's new book 'A Long Winter', a twenty-five thousand word story set in the Catalan Pyrenees, the landscape of his first novel 'The South', is being published by Tuskar Rock Press in a limited edition. The Master
IMPAC Prize WinnerThe prize, inaugurated in 1948, is judged by the leading French editors. Previous winners include Gunter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' (1962), Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' (1969), Mario Vargas Llosa's 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter' (1979) and Orham Pamuk's 'My Name Is Red' (2002).Winner of Los Angeles Times Novel of the YearWinner of Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger for the best foreign novel published in 2005 in France" The award for fiction went to Irish writer Colm Tóibín for his novel about Henry James, "The Master," ... The Times citation described the novel as 'an illumination of the very process of writing itself — Buy viagra Buy cheap viagra Cialis get cheap Shop viagra cialis Buy sildenafil Buy viagra in canada Generic viagra online Cheap pills viagra Cialis viagra canada viagra cheap canada viagra online order Buy viagra order viagra a compelling, richly rewarding and utterly original work of fiction about family and friendship and art in the Modern Age.' " Shortlisted For Man Booker Prize 2004 New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2004
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