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The South: A Novel
Full title: | The South: A Novel |
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ISBN: | 9781476704487 |
ISBN 10: | 1476704481 |
Authors: | |
Publisher: | Scribner |
Edition: | Reissue |
Num. pages: | 240 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Language: | en |
Published on: | 2012 |
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Synopsis
In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish émigré in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought she knew.
The South is a novel of classic themes—of art and exile, and of the seemingly irreconcilable yearnings for love and freedom—to which Colm Tóibín brings a new, passionate sensitivity.