Mothers and Sons
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From the internationally celebrated author of The Master, winner of the 2006 International Dublin Literary Award.
Mothers and Sons is a deeply penetrating and beautifully written meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Each of the nine stories 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.
A son buries his mother and goes out to a drug-fuelled rave on a remote beach near Dublin. A mother sings about treacherous love to a rapt crowd of musicians in a local pub. And in "A Long Winter," Colm Tóibín's finest piece of fiction to date, a man goes searching for his mother in the snow-covered Pyrenees.
Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each finely wrought story teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons. This is an acute, masterful, and moving collection that confirms Tóibín as a great prose stylist of our time.
About this Author
COLM TÓIBÍN is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of many novels, including The Blackwater Lightship, The Master, and The Testament of Mary, all three of which were nominated for the Booker Prize. The Master also won the DUBLIN Literary Award, Le Prix du meilleur livre etranger, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Novel Award, and finalist for the DUBLIN Literary Award, was made into an Oscar-nominated film in 2015. Nora Webster was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. He is also the author of many short stories and works of non-fiction. He mainly lives in Dublin, Ireland.
Reviews
"A beautiful and echoing collection. . . . Brilliant. . . ." --Pico Iyer, New York Times Book Review
"A deeply satisfying and memorable read." --Globe and Mail
"In Mothers and Sons, every relationship between mother and son is fraught, potent, loaded with volatile material and rich in hidden structure." --Times Literary Supplement
"[Tóibín has] the extraordinary gift of making perennial matters of family life feel mesmerizingly new, and of epic significance. . . ." --National Post
"Tóibín's genius is that he makes it impossible for us to walk away." --New Yorker
"Tóibín relentlessly strives for psychological truth and ends up making literature of a pleasingly grown-up kind. . . . He is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer." --The Guardian
"Tóibín is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity . . . these are beautiful stories, beautifully crafted." --Literary Review
"Colm Tóibín is a master of emotion." --Observer
"Astonishing. . . . A rich but supple prose style seals each story's--and thus the collection's--absolute success." --Booklist (starred review)
"Characterization, dialogue, controlled narrative and scenic description are expertly blended throughout, often to stunning emotional effect." --Kirkus Reviews
"Profoundly resonant stories." --The Times
"Tóibín has an ability to encapsulate an entire community in just a few words. . . . Add to that Tóibín's fearlessness, his seemingly effortless command of dialogue and character and his sensitivity to nuance, and the result is a powerful and winning collection." --Winnipeg Free Press
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