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Title: A Long Winter
Author: Colm Toibin
ISBN: 9781668212714
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 144
Publisher Description: <b>Available for the first time in a beautiful standalone edition, one of Colm Tóibín's finest short stories and "the most striking example of Tóibin's emotional control" (<i>The Guardian</i>), "A Long Winter," is set in the mountains of Catalonia in Spain--includes a new afterword by the author on how he came to write the story.</b> <p/>A young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan Pyrenees upon completing his military service. His younger brother, Jordi, will be departing for his service a week after Miquel's arrival. He will be gone for two years. Miquel notices their mother's increasingly erratic behavior and understands that she is drinking. <p/>As she becomes increasingly unstable, her husband resorts to drastic measures. Unable to abide his betrayal and her own grief, she walks off into the mountains. A blizzard sets in and the search for her is futile. No one will find her until the spring thaw arrives. <p/>A gorgeous story of loss, grief, and longing, "A Long Winter" describes an extraordinary bond between a mother and son and a haunting portrait of a family in crisis. Tóibín's powers of imagination and transfixing emotional insight are on full display.
Author: Colm Toibin
ISBN: 9781668212714
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2025
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 144
Publisher Description: <b>Available for the first time in a beautiful standalone edition, one of Colm Tóibín's finest short stories and "the most striking example of Tóibin's emotional control" (<i>The Guardian</i>), "A Long Winter," is set in the mountains of Catalonia in Spain--includes a new afterword by the author on how he came to write the story.</b> <p/>A young man named Miquel returns to his family in the Catalan Pyrenees upon completing his military service. His younger brother, Jordi, will be departing for his service a week after Miquel's arrival. He will be gone for two years. Miquel notices their mother's increasingly erratic behavior and understands that she is drinking. <p/>As she becomes increasingly unstable, her husband resorts to drastic measures. Unable to abide his betrayal and her own grief, she walks off into the mountains. A blizzard sets in and the search for her is futile. No one will find her until the spring thaw arrives. <p/>A gorgeous story of loss, grief, and longing, "A Long Winter" describes an extraordinary bond between a mother and son and a haunting portrait of a family in crisis. Tóibín's powers of imagination and transfixing emotional insight are on full display.
