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.' 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. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence each of Toibin's stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.
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Hardback Editions
January 2011 : Hardback
| Title: The Empty Family: Stories Author(s): Colm Toibin ISBN: 1-4391-3832-X / 978-1-4391-3832-8 Publisher: Scribner Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 2011 : Hardback
| Title: The Empty Family: Stories Author(s): Colm Toibin ISBN: 0-7710-8433-1 / 978-0-7710-8433-1 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2010 : Hardback
| Title: The Empty Family: Stories Author(s): Colm Tóibín ISBN: 0-670-91817-2 / 978-0-670-91817-1 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
August 2012 : Paperback
| Title: The Empty Family Author(s): Colm Toibin ISBN: 0-7710-8407-2 / 978-0-7710-8407-2 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Emblem Editions Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 2012 : Paperback
| Title: The Empty Family: Stories Author(s): Colm Toibin ISBN: 1-4391-9596-X / 978-1-4391-9596-3 Publisher: Scribner Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
August 2011 : Paperback
| Title: The Empty Family: Stories Author(s): Colm Toibin ISBN: 0-7710-8435-8 / 978-0-7710-8435-5 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Emblem Editions Availability: Amazon More details... |
June 2011 : Paperback
| Title: The Empty Family Author(s): Colm Tóibín ISBN: 0-241-95402-9 / 978-0-241-95402-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (UK) Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
2011 : Paperback
| Title: The Empty Family: Stories Author(s): Colm Toibin ISBN: 0-14-104177-3 / 978-0-14-104177-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
October 2010 : Paperback
| Title: Empty Family, the Author(s): Colm Toibin ISBN: 0-670-91965-9 / 978-0-670-91965-9 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Imprint unknown Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Other Editions
January 2011 : Kindle edition
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October 2010 : Kindle edition
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