Brooklyn. Dublin: Tuskar Rock Press, 2009. Bound by The Fine Bindery in canary leather boards, lettered in gilt along spine with red & yellow head & tail bands, cream laid-paper endpapers. Housed in publisher’s slipcase. A fine bright copy.

Number XII of Twenty-Five Copies, Signed by the Author.

There were a further 75 copies bound in cloth boards.

The author’s seventh novel Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn is a moving story of emigration and self-discovery, following Eilis Lacey, a young Irish woman who leaves 1950s Enniscorthy for a new life in Brooklyn, New York. The novel explores themes of displacement, love, and identity as Eilis navigates homesickness, cultural adjustment, and personal choices.

This special edition is published by Tuskar Rock Press in Dublin in 2009, Brooklyn was later adapted into an acclaimed film.

Tóibín’s restrained prose and emotional depth have made it one of his most celebrated works.