News from Dublin: short stories

Readers who have enjoyed Tóibín’s novels will find much to admire in this collection, especially in those stories that are rooted in these imagined and half-submerged pasts. It’s the drama of what isn’t said, what doesn’t occur – but what might ― The Telegraph

After this, I’m going to have to read every damn thing he’s ever writ­ten. He really is that good ― The Oldie

The News from Dublin by Colm Tóibín ― short stories to astonish and delight. Nine masterful tales chart unbreakable family connections ― and complications ― from Ireland to South America and Spain ― Financial Times

Tóibín is the consummate cartographer of the private self, summoning with restrained acuity (and a delicious streak of sly humour) the thoughts his characters struggle to find words for -- Clare Clark ― Guardian

There are few authors more attuned to human yearning ― The i

Tóibín is a subtle, intelligent and deeply felt writer ― Guardian

A master of understated emotions ― Mail on Sunday

Tóibín [is] a master of his art . . . exquisite ― Los Angeles Times

Tóibín has conducted an exhilarating masterclass in extract the maximum effect from the minimum of prose, with the leanest and cleanest narrative line . . . His gifts are so remarkable -- Robert McCrum ― Independent

Tóibín is a class act and his eye for the absurdities of Irish life keeps the pages turning ― Mail on Sunday

A writer evidently at the height of his powers ― Sunday Independent

Tóibín writes prose of a heart-breaking beauty ― Daily Telegraph

Colm Tóibín is a writer of extraordinary emotional clarity . . . Tóibín perfectly understands the instantaneous nature of the ideal short story; the sense that the pen is going straight into a major vein -- Kate Saunders ― Literary Review

It is in his emotional choreography that Tóibín shows himself to be an exceptional writer ― Sunday Telegraph

It’s truly remarkable that a writer of Tóibín’s great felicity, immense seriousness and general large awareness – a writer so naturally gifted as a novelist – can deliver short stories of such subtle empathy and brilliance. He’s dazzling -- Richard Ford

Lives lived far from home unfold with Tóibín’s trademark spare, piercing prose ― i News ???????