The south - colm toibin

A highly acclaimed novel from the author of Brooklyn and an immensely gifted and accomplished writer ( The Washington Post ), about an Irishwoman who creates a new life in post-war Spain.

In 1950, Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter.

There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him.

But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish �migr� in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought she knew.

The South is a novel of classic themes--of art and exile, and of the seemingly irreconcilable yearnings for love and freedom--to which Colm T�ib�n brings a new, passionate sensitivity.