Colm Tóibín on Stories of Exile (Part Two)

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Aug 15, 202636:46Society & Culture

Colm Tóibín is widely acclaimed for the emotional restraint and quiet power of his prose. His writing explores exile, abandonment, loss and denial, the things that go unspoken and the feelings not acted upon. His novels...

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