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by Colm Toibin
A brand-new, long story from Tóibín that picks up where A Long Winter ends, with an afterword by the author on the enduring presence of the characters in these stories—in a beautiful stand-alone edition.
A young man named Miquel lives in a house with his father in the Catalan Pyrenees. The year before, his mother left home in a drinker's rage. A storm came up and she was buried in snow, her body, not discovered until the spring thaw.
Miquel's younger brother abandoned the family when he returned from military service and learned that his mother was dead.
Now there is a new bridge opening. No longer will these Pyrenees villages be so isolated; no longer will small time smugglers cart their contraband over the rope bridge on donkeys; the dogs will be able to couple on both sides of the river.
Mistakes, betrayals, willfulness, taboo appetites and longings, and bad luck lead Miquel and his father to a two year prison sentence. And there, Miquel relationships transform his understanding of his own history.
A gorgeous story of loss, grief, and longing—spare and gutting—The Bridge is a masterpiece. Tóibín's powers of emotional control are on full display in this devastating portrait of a young man.
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Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah's Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; and Nora Webster, winner of the Hawthornden Prize, as well as three story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and was named the 2022–2024 Laureate for Irish Fiction by the Arts Council of Ireland.In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature.
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