![]() ![]() The audience bonded as they immediately recognised the reference. ‘It’s four o’clock on a Sunday, and Miss Kelly’s shop would be closed by now,’ Professor Stephen Regan began as chair of the talk. The filled auditorium shimmered with a sense of enthusiasm for a shared book. The Big Read talk is special even in the context of the larger Book Festival, because in the weeks leading up to the Festival 3000 free copies of the book had been distributed throughout County Durham, to encourage people to read it. The novel is striking in the way it portrays – in such detail – Eilis’s life: the happy moments as well as the confusion and struggles, the emotions and feelings as well as physicality, materialism and the environment. Yurie Watanabe reviews his appearance at Durham Book Festival 2019, for which this novel was the Big Read.īrooklyn is a deceptively powerful story of a young Irish girl who leaves her home to find work in New York. ![]() His award-winning novel, Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín treats the theme of homesickness with empathy born of personal experience, but also a writer’s detachment. ![]()
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