Summary of The South
Katherine, an Irish woman, leaves her husband and infant son in the early 1950s and moves to Barcelona in search of her creative identity. She finds a city scarred by the memories of the Spanish Civil War and stifled under Franco’s military regime. After some time, she follows her new lover, Miguel, a fellow artist, to a village in the Pyrenees, where the shadows of their pasts gradually catch up with them.
Reasons to read The South
Colm Toibin is an acclaimed Irish writer. He received the Costa Book award for his novel “Brooklyn” and the International Dublin Literary Award for his novel “The Master”. “The South” is his debut and earned him the Irish Times First Fiction Award and the Aer Lingus Literature Prize.
Setting: Barcelona & the Pyrenees (Spain)
Original title: The South
Year of publication: 1990
Nr of pages: 240
