Synopsis
A stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.
'Beautifully captured moments of longing and loss' – The Guardian
'Truly remarkable' – Richard Ford
Mothers and Sons is a sensitive meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each story focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered.
An acute, masterful and moving collection from Colm Tóibín.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
Read Long Island, the Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Colm Tóibín's beloved Brooklyn.
Details
23 May 2024
9781035029525Reviews
Colm Tóibín is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity. Each of the nine stories is a snapshot of a point of crisis . . . Tóibín perfectly understands the instantaneous nature of the ideal short story; the sense that the pen is going straight into a major vein. These are beautiful stories, beautifully crafted.
The last story in this excellent collection is a superbly powerful tale of betrayal and desertion. Quintessential Tóibín.
Moving . . . beautifully captured moments of longing and loss . . . Tóibín is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer.
By turns surprising and illuminating, always beautifully written, Mothers and Sons places Tóibín in the front rank of modern Irish fiction . . . It may not be going too far to suggest Irish fiction has found its first Master of the new century.
