A Long Winter by Colm Tóibín (2006): A Review
Title : A Long Winter Author : Colm Tóibín Publication Year : 2006 Rating : ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages : 144 Source : audiobook @storytel.tr Genre : literary fiction, historical fiction, novella I picked up A Long Winter because I needed a short audiobook for a trip. The audiobook was short. The winter inside it was not. It felt endless. This is one of those compact Irish novels/novellas where nothing is wasted and nothing lets you breathe. In a small village in the Catalan Pyrenees, Miquel’s mother disappears into the snow and never returns. Everyone more or less agrees she is dead, somewhere under the drifts, and life is simply expected to continue. Miquel and his father are left to endure a winter that feels more like a sentence than a season. The language is stripped down, almost bare, but every line carries an impossible weight. Grief is not announced; it just seeps into everything. The poverty, the broken family, the silence between father and son, the isolation, the sense that nothing ...