The South (novel)

The South (novel)

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name = The South
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author = Colm Tóibín
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country = Ireland
language = English
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genre = Novel
publisher = Serpent's Tail
release_date = 1990
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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isbn = ISBN 0-670-83870-5 (hardback edition) & ISBN 0-330-32333-4 (paperback edition)
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"The South" is a 1990 novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

Katherine, a protest woman from Ireland, arrives in Barcelona in the 1950s having left her husband and son. Very slowly she starts discovering the city and gets to meet local painters. The dictatorship of Francisco Franco and the still recent civil war are present in the characters' past. She meets the artist Miguel and they both move to a remote village in the Pyrenees.

The novel was first published by Serpent's Tail in 1990 and a revised edition was published by Picador Press. ISBN 0-330-33985-0

Awards and nominations

Won the Aer Lingus Literature Prize in 1991.

External links

* [http://jurup.homepage.dk/ A Danish site in English dedicated to the novel and the author]


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