![]() ![]() They depict “lost” characters beset by family problems or issues - estrangements, absences, death - which have dominated and shaped their lives.Įach story is as finely crafted as his novels (many of which are reviewed here), written in that same eloquent prose and focusing on many of the themes that often occur in his work - missing mothers, childhood abandonment, unconventional families, hiding your homosexuality and exile abroad, just to name a few. ![]() ![]() Many of them are set in Spain (Tóibín lived there from 1975-1978, as detailed in his travelogue Barcelona), with the rest in his native Ireland. Fiction – paperback Penguin 224 pages 2011.Ĭolm Tóibín’s The Empty Family is a collection of exquisitely written short stories all framed around the idea of people - alienated and alone - seeking love or solace or a semblance of normality. ![]()
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