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In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.
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- Title
- Brooklyn
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Colm Tóibín
- Publisher
- Viking an imprint of Penguin Books
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 251
- ISBN10
- 0670918121
- ISBN13
- 9780670918126
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Love, Family, Women, USA, Life, New York, Teens, Ireland, Young Adult Romance, America, Irish Literature, Home, Migration, Emigration, Exile, Emancipation, 1950s, Brooklyn
- First published
- 2009
- Original title
- Brooklyn
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when she is offered a job in America, she leaves her family to start a new life in Brooklyn, New York.