The Story of the Night
1998 Nominated

The Story of the Night

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Set in Argentina in the 1980s, this novel follows the progress of a lonely young man trying to live openly with his homosexuality. His coming out mirrors the country’s emergence from the repressive rule of the Generals to tentative new hope under the early Menem government.

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Colm
Tóibín

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. 3x shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin/New York.

 

 

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. 3x shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Tóibín lives in Dublin/New York.

 

 

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United Kingdom
Author
Publisher
Picador

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