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Colm Tóibín's New York Times best-selling novel - now an acclaimed film starring Saoirse Ronan and Jim Broadbent, nominated for four Academy Prizes including Best Picture - is "a moving, deeply gratifying read" (Entertainment Weekly) about a young Irish immigrant in Brooklyn in the first 1950s. "One of the most unforgettable people in contemporary books" (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), Eilis Lacey has come old in small-town Ireland in the hard years pursuing World War Two. When an Irish priest from Brooklyn offers to sponsor Eilis in America, she chooses she must go, leaving her fragile mother and her charismatic sister behind. Eilis locates work in a office store on Fulton Neighborhood and, when she least expects it, locates love. Tony, who is in love with the Dodgers and his big Italian family, slowly wins her over with patient attraction. But just as Eilis starts to fall season in love, damaging news from Ireland threatens the offer of her future. Creator "Colm Tóibín...is his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory vitality" (Los Angeles Times). "Written with mesmerizing vitality and skill" (The Boston World), Brooklyn is a "triumph.... One particular magically quiet books that sneak through to readers and record their imaginations" (USA Today).
