Praise for
Brooklyn "Written with mesmerizing power and skill." –Richard Eder,
Boston Globe "Colm Tóibín ... [is] his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power." –Floyd Skoot,
Los Angeles Times "Tóibín creates suspense out of the simplest emotions: fear, love and, most poignantly, regret." –
Time "Eilis' universal struggles with matters of the heart ... make this novel ... a moving, deeply satisfying read." –
Entertainment Weekly "[A] gem of a novel... profound." –Maureen Corrigan, NPR
"Quietly majestic." –Claire Messud,
The New York Review of Books "[A] masterly tale... There is not a sentence or a thought out of place.... His finest fiction to date." –Bernard O'Donoghue,
Irish Times "[A] triumph... One of those magically quiet novels that sneak up on readers and capture their imaginations."
–USA Today