{"product_id":"the-empty-family-1","title":"The Empty Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e'I imagined lamplight, shadows, soft voices, clothes put away, the low sound of late news on the radio. And I thought as I crossed the bridge at Baggot Street to face the last stretch of my own journey home that no matter what I had done, I had not done that.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the nine captivating stories that make up The Empty Family, Colm Toibin delineates with a tender and unique sensibility lives of unspoken or unconscious longing, of individuals, often willingly, cast adrift from their history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence, each of Toibin's stories manages to contain whole worlds: stories of fleeing the past and returning home, of family threads lost and ultimately regained.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colm Toibin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46946501591209,"sku":"9781742610542","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781742610542.jpg?v=1775018854","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/the-empty-family-1","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}