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In a small town in the south-east of Ireland in the 1950s, Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. So when a job is offered in America, it is clear that she must go. Young, homesick and alone, she gradually buries the pain of parting beneath the rhythms of a new life in Brooklyn until she realizes that she has found a sort of happiness. But when tragic news summons her back to Ireland, and the constrictions of her old life unexpectedly give way to new possibilities, she finds herself facing a terrible choice. Brooklyn is a tender story of great love and loss, and of the heartbreaking choice between personal freedom and duty.
Penguin 2009
Translated into: German, Dutch, Czech, Serbian, Portuguese – Brazilian, Danish, Finnish, Slovak, Greek, Chinese – Simplified, Hungarian
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