Long Island (Oprah's Book Club)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Scribner Book Company
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
07.05.2024
Verlag
Scribner Book CompanySeitenzahl
304
Maße (L/B/H)
23,4/15,9/2,8 cm
Gewicht
458 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-4767-8511-0
From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work twenty years later.
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades.
One day, when Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting.
Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis’ life are thunderous and dangerous, and there’s no one more deft than Tóibín at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she’d lost.
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family that lives and works, eats and plays together. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teenage children, has no one to rely on in this still-new country. Though her ties to Ireland remain stronger than those that hold her to her new land and home, she has not returned in decades.
One day, when Tony is at his job and Eilis is in her home office doing her accounting, an Irishman comes to the door asking for her by name. He tells her that his wife is pregnant with Tony’s child and that when the baby is born, he will not raise it but instead deposit it on Eilis’s doorstep. It is what Eilis does—and what she refuses to do—in response to this stunning news that makes Tóibín’s novel so riveting.
Long Island is about longings unfulfilled, even unrecognized. The silences in Eilis’ life are thunderous and dangerous, and there’s no one more deft than Tóibín at giving them language. This is a gorgeous story of a woman alone in a marriage and the deepest bonds she rekindles on her return to the place and people she left behind, to ways of living and loving she thought she’d lost.
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Ein grossartiger Roman
Bewertung aus Oetwil am See am 30.12.2024
Bewertungsnummer: 2374595
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
Auch wer den "Vorgängerromen" BROOKLYN nicht gelesen hat (aber vielleicht die mit Saoirse Ronan in der Hauptrolle hervorragende Verfilmung gesehen hat), kommt auf mehr als seine Kosten. Das gleiche "Personal" zwanzig Jahre später. Eilis Lacey kehrt aus den USA zum 80. Geburtstag ihrer Mutter nach Irland zurück und trifft wieder auf Jim Farrell, mit dem sie damals (fast) ein Verhältnis hatte, obwohl sie in den USA bereits mit Tony verheiratet war. Wie der Autor nun die emotionalen Verstrickungen der Protagonisten schildert, aus denen man nicht einfach ausbrechen kann, ist umwerfend, und man zittert bis zum Schluss mit, wie sich Eilis und Jim schliesslich entscheiden (obwohl man es ahnen musste).
Empfehlung: auf englisch lesen. Tóibíns Sprache ist glasklar. "Man beschreibe Ungewöhnliches mit gewöhnlichen Worten".
Sechs Sterne....
The sequel to "Brooklyn"
Booknerd am 18.06.2024
Bewertungsnummer: 2225359
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
In "Long Island" we meet Eilis, an irish woman married into an italian-american family 20 years ago. The story starts with a neighbour who tells Eilis, that her husband has fathered a child with his wife, and demands that they take care of the baby as soon as it's born. This of course leads Eilis to serious questions about her marriage, if she chose the right partner and what else she could do with her life. What might sound like a tragic romance novel is in fact very beautifully written literary fiction with impressive characters. I enjoyed this book very, very much.
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