Colm Tóibín was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of ten previous novels, including The Master, Brooklyn, and The Magician, and two collections of stories. He has been three times shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2021, he was awarded the David Cohen Prize for Literature. Tóibín is the current Laureate for Irish fiction.
A brave and remarkable novel, the impact of which no reader will
shed
*Sunday Independent*
The Story of the Night is, in the end, a love story of the most
serious and difficult kind. Tóibín has told it with profound
artistry and truth
*Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy's Life and Old
School*
Nobody before Tóibín has made such honesty stand so clearly for
political and personal integrity . . . In each of his first three
novels he has invented a strong central character but Garay is by
far his most memorable
*Sunday Times*
A remarkable achievement . . . The ease, the fluidity, the economy,
the precision of Tóibín’s masterly prose make this novel sheer
pleasure to read
*The Times*
Tóibín (The Heather Blazing, LJ 2/1/93) lives in Ireland, but his newest novel successfully re-creates the turmoil and confusion of the postmilitary regime in Argentina in the early 1980s as if he had been witness. Richard Garay is an Argentinean, bored by his job as an English tutor and frustrated by his hidden homosexuality. His fluency with language attracts the attention of Claudio Canetto, who hires him as a liaison to foreign investors in his campaign for president of Argentina. Though the campaing is unsuccessful, it draws Garay into an uneasy alliance with a pair of powerful Americans who hope to influence the next election. Tóibín flirts with the exploration of a tainted political process, but the heart of the book details the secret relationship between Garay and Canetto's son Pablo; as the country recovers from the Falklands War and the oppression of military leadership, their pairing grows from lust to love as the new threat of AIDS looms. Tóibín's simple but eloquent telling of this personal story is sometimes explicit, often moving, and always vivid in its portrayal of Argentina and its people. Highly recommended.‘Marc A. Kloszewski, Indiana Free Lib., Indiana, Pa.
A brave and remarkable novel, the impact of which no reader will
shed. -- Dermot Bolger * Sunday Independent *
The Story of the Night is, in the end, a love story of the
most serious and difficult kind. Toibin has told it with profound
artistry and truth. -- Tobias Wolff
Nobody before Toibin has made such honesty stand so clearly for
political and personal integrity . . . In each of his first three
novels he has invented a strong central character but Garay is by
far his most memorable. -- Edmund White * Sunday Times *
A remarkable achievement . . . The ease, the fluidity, the economy,
the precision of Toibin's masterly prose make this novel sheer
pleasure to read. -- Norman Thomas di Giovanni * The Times *
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