Read an exclusive short story by Colm Tóibín, author of Brooklyn and Long Island
Five Bridges is a new story from Tóibín's upcoming collection, The News From Dublin.
Five Bridges is an eerily prescient story from Colm Tóibín’s short story collection, The News From Dublin, available to read exclusively ahead of publication below. Finished on the day of Trump’s second inauguration, it is the story of Paul, an illegal Irish immigrant preparing to leave America and his daughter, before ICE come looking for him.
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The News from Dublin
by Colm Tóibín
A beautiful collection of short stories from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island. A woman in Galway hears of the death of her son in the First World War. An Irishman seeks anonymity in Barcelona, haunted by crimes he has committed. A man goes to Dublin from Enniscorthy to implore the Minister for Health for a special favour. A young woman is pregnant during the Spanish Civil War. An undocumented worker finds himself living an illegal life and must leave San Francisco, and his child, after thirty years in America. These are the days and nights of those living far from home: lives of great longing, at a great distance from past lives and past selves.
