The Story of the Night

The Story of the Night

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name = The Story of the Night
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author = Colm Tóibín
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country = Ireland
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Picador
release_date = 27 September 1996
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 320 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-330-34017-4 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-330-34018-2 (paperback edition)
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"The Story of the Night" is a novel by Irish novelist Colm Tóibín, set in Argentina in the 1980s where the main character, Richard, was born. Son of a British mother and a dead father, he must come to terms with the hidden story of his two countries now at war and his sexuality as he grows up.

Awards and nominations

It won the Ferro-Grumley Prize for the "Best gay novel of 1997".


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