The South - Colm Toibin

nA 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. nIn 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. n n 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.n