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Brooklyn af Colm Tóibín
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Brooklyn (udgave 2015)

af Colm Tóibín (Forfatter)

Serier: Eilis Lacey (1)

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Unge Eilis fra det fattige Irland fr omkring 1950 tilbud om en bedre tilvrelse i New York. Her finder den forsigtige pige efterhnden sin plads i pensionatet og i butikken, hvor hun arbejder. Men hvordan skal hun dog fortlle mor om den sde Tony?
Medlem:Quest4Adventure
Titel:Brooklyn
Forfattere:Colm Tóibín (Forfatter)
Info:Scribner (2015), Edition: Media Tie-In, 288 pages
Samlinger:Læst, men ikke ejet
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Nøgleord:Ingen

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Brooklyn af Colm TÓIBÍN

  1. 60
    Der vokser et Træ i Brooklyn. Roman. Overs. fra engelsk efter "A tree grows in Brooklyn" ved Gunner Gersov. Omslagstegning: Svend Otto af Betty Smith (kiwiflowa)
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    Lykkens land af Frank McCourt (bergs47)
  3. 30
    Lad kun verden tumle sig : roman af Colum McCann (Othemts)
  4. 21
    The Walking People af Mary Beth Keane (JGoto)
    JGoto: Irish immigrants with emphasis on family, but the story is more complex.
  5. 10
    The Empty Family: Stories af Colm Tóibín (Christy.Riege)
  6. 10
    Lucy Gayheart af Willa Cather (pacocillero)
  7. 10
    Someone af Alice McDermott (Ciruelo)
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    Ellis Island af Kate Kerrigan (DubaiReader)
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    The Walk Home af Rachel Seiffert (charl08)
  10. 11
    Lila af Marilynne Robinson (charl08)
    charl08: In both novels, key character faces new, difficult choices in new places. Both beautifully written, compelling.
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    Girl in Translation af Jean Kwok (jayne_charles)
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    Himmerige og helvede af Jón Kalman Stefánsson (anglemark)
    anglemark: There's something about the laconic prose and the description of a young person's plight that made me associate these two books with each other.
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Brooklyn - Toibin
Audio performance by Kirsten Potter
4 stars

This was a good book to follow several books that were high tension reading.It’s a very low key story. Eilis Lacey has the usual struggles of a young woman in a new land. Difficult adjustments, certainly, but nothing earth shattering. Her story was interesting to me without disturbing my peace.

The stifling, judgemental atmosphere of the mid-century Irish village caused me some frustration. I wanted Eilis to find some assertive rebellion. She was fortunate to have her sister's manipulative backing. I enjoyed looking over Eilis’ shoulder as she adjusted to life in Brooklyn. This is a book of detailed character study with a rich historic atmosphere. It wasn’t exciting, but I liked it.

I’m looking forward to checking out the upcoming sequel, Long Island, in May, 2024. ( )
  msjudy | Mar 23, 2024 |
Coming-of-Age
  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
I expected much more. The main character is too passive; everything just happens to her (and most of it is good.) She is an Irish immigrant who has a good job and nice living quarters on her arrival, night classes that are paid for and she meets a really nice young man to boot. ( )
  ellink | Jan 22, 2024 |
This is exactly the sort of literary fiction that makes me feel ambivalent about literary fiction. I don't mean I didn't like it, I just mean I felt tired by the time I finished it, and hesitant to repeat the experience soon.

Brooklyn is a quiet story about a young woman who emigrates from Ireland to Brooklyn in the 1950s. The storytelling is comfortable yet spare; the historical details are immersive. This is a novel you can finish in a weekend (and I did).

The theme seems to be the way our identities—perhaps women's identities specifically—are contingent on circumstance; Eilis spends much of her time masking or questioning her feelings, and her selfhood becomes illegible as a result. I liked how her relationships were mediated by letters, or by social expectations—it made me think of communication theory, the way some messages simply can't go through.

As a portrait of young womanhood, Brooklyn is certainly joyless and claustrophobic, though subtly so. To the extent that Eilis has a stable identity, it seems to be rooted in her desire to be an accountant. I want all the best for this confused young person, but at the end of the day, I prefer my heroines to be a bit more verbose and defiant.
  raschneid | Dec 19, 2023 |
Where do I begin? I could begin like the author and take half of the novel to tell you what could be summed up in 5 pages beautifully? Or I could be like the author and take the second half to move the story and the character around at breakneck speed without any insight into how why or where or what the point was?
Bottom line it had more potential than product. You want to care for the character but she's so aloof even to the reader. No one in her family knows where their voice is and their ability to communicate with each other is just as bad as the author's communication with the reader. There were some great moments and then they fell flat. Everything the book was leading up to dropped on the last page. I don't need a nice neat wrap up with a book but I do like to finish the book without the feeling that the library possibly ripped out the last 35 pages as a cruel joke to me. ( )
  MsTera | Oct 10, 2023 |
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Ultimately, Brooklyn does not feel limited. Tóibín makes a single incision, but it’s extraordinarily well-placed and strikes against countless nerve-ends. The novel is a compassionate reminder that a city must be made of people before it can be made of myths.
 
In tracking the experience, at the remove of half a century, of a girl as unsophisticated and simple as Eilis — a girl who permits herself no extremes of temperament, who accords herself no right to self-assertion — Toibin exercises sustained subtlety and touching respect. . .

In “Brooklyn,” Colm Toibin quietly, modestly shows how place can assert itself, enfolding the visitor, staking its claim.
 

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Unge Eilis fra det fattige Irland fr omkring 1950 tilbud om en bedre tilvrelse i New York. Her finder den forsigtige pige efterhnden sin plads i pensionatet og i butikken, hvor hun arbejder. Men hvordan skal hun dog fortlle mor om den sde Tony?

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