{"product_id":"9781439195963","title":"The Empty Family: Stories","description":"From the internationally celebrated author of \u003cb\u003eBrooklyn\u003c\/b\u003e and\u003cb\u003e The Master\u003c\/b\u003e, and winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, comes a stunning new book of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the captivating stories that make up \u003cb\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/b\u003e, Colm Tóibín delineates with a tender and unique sensibility, lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals often willingly cast adrift from their history. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town, to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence, each of Tóibín's stories manage to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike Tóibín's celebrated novels, and his previous short story collection, \u003cb\u003eMothers and Sons\u003c\/b\u003e, reviewed on the front page of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review, \u003cb\u003eThe Empty Family\u003c\/b\u003e will further confirm Tóibín's status as \"his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power.\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48049822040304,"sku":"9781439195963","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439195963_p0.jpg?v=1763756303","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439195963","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}