Product Description
The South
Author: Colm Tóibín
Format: Paperback
A modern classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn.
This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband.
I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland and reach out for a new life.
Determined to become an artist, she flees to Spain, where she meets Miguel, a passionate man who has fought for his own freedoms. They retreat to the quiet intensity of the mountains and begin to build a life together.
But as Miguel’s past catches up with him, Katherine too is forced to re-examine her relationships: with her lover, her painting and the homeland she only thought she knew. . . The South was Colm Tóibín's debut novel, winning the Irish Times First Fiction Award in 1991. 'An imaginative, deeply felt and evocative tale' – The Sunday Times 'Colm Tóibín writes prose of a heartbreaking beauty' – Hilary Mantel Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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