About this Event
We are delighted to announce a special event with Colm Tóibín to read from and discuss his forthcoming novel, Long Island, the sequel to Brooklyn.
The event will take place in Pálás Cinema, Galway on the 25th May 2024.
Long Island is Colm Tóibín’s masterpiece: an exquisite, exhilarating novel that asks whether it is possible to truly return to the past and renew the great love that seemed gone forever.
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 again. Back to her mother. Back to the town and the people she had chosen to leave behind.
Did she make the wrong choice marrying Tony all those years ago? Is it too late now to take a different path?
Praise for Long Island
‘His best yet . . . It reads like the tensest of stage plays, but with all the pleasures of interiority that the novel form allows. I haven't wanted to hug this many characters in a while’ –
Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pálás, 15 Merchants Road Lower, Galway, Ireland
EUR 25.00