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Celebrated author Colm Tóibín, currently Laureate for Irish Fiction, discusses his latest novel, Long Island, a sequel to his award-winning novel Brooklyn, which reunites the reader with Eilis Lacey in the 1970s, as she returns to Ireland and tries to reconcile lost love with current reality. Set mainly in Enniscorthy, the small town in Ireland where Colm Tóibín was born and still has a home, the novel foregrounds some of the minor characters in Brooklyn. He discusses the themes of abandonment, loss, lust and denial in the novel with Bilal Qureshi, broadcaster, editor and critic.

Long Island
Recorded November 9, 2024

0:00-2:57 Introduction
2:57-48:31 Conversation
48:31-1:02:10 Audience Q&A