Colm Toibin Sees the ‘Origin of All Civil Wars' in this Greek Tragedy

Name: Colm Toibin Sees the ‘Origin of All Civil Wars' in this Greek Tragedy
Brand: Findaway
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Author: Colm Toibin
ISBN: 9781509452767

Author: Colm Toibin

Narrator: Colm Toibin, Jeffrey Brown

Unabridged: 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: NewsHour Productions

Published: 07/03/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Television

Synopsis

In the new novel House of Names, one of today's leading contemporary writers looks back to the Trojan War and Greek mythology for inspiration. Colm Toibin joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss why he wanted to write a novel about a family drama in ancient Greece and the connection to civil wars in our own time.

About Colm Toibin

Colm Tóibín is the author of eleven novels, including Long Island, an Oprah’s Book Club Pick; The Magician, winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize; The Master, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Book Award; The Testament of Mary; and Nora Webster; as well as two story collections and several books of criticism. He is the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University and has been named as the Laureate for Irish Fiction for 2022–2024 by the Arts Council of Ireland. Three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin and New York.

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