内容简介
在爱尔兰东南部小镇恩尼斯科西，家庭妇女诺拉•韦伯斯特中年丧夫，要独自抚养四个孩子，手头拮据。
诺拉沉浸在失去挚爱的悲痛中，她期待能出现任何机会摆脱困境和烦恼，又害怕自己要回到结婚前的那种单调、压抑的工作生活中。另一方面，小镇居民的生活距离很近，似乎人人都知道彼此的秘密。敏感的诺拉变得自我、固执，有时会失去耐心，她要捍卫自己的家庭隐私，却也忽略了两个年幼的儿子失去父亲后的伤心和变化。
渐渐地，凭借歌唱天赋和友谊的力量，诺拉看见了新生活的一线希望。
作者简介
科尔姆·托宾，爱尔兰当代著名作家。1955年生于爱尔兰韦克斯福德郡恩尼斯科西镇。毕业于都柏林大学。自1990年发表第一部小说《南方》以来，托宾已出版十部长篇小说，两部短篇小说集，一部诗集，多部戏剧、游记、散文集。《黑水灯塔船》（1999）、《大师》（2004）、《玛利亚的自白》（2012）都入围布克奖决选名单，《大师》荣获2006年度都柏林国际文学奖等文学奖。《布鲁克林》获2009年度英国科斯塔最佳小说奖。《诺拉·韦伯斯特》获英国霍桑顿文学奖。2011年，英国《观察家报》将其选入“英国最重要的三百位知识分子”，同年，他获得爱尔兰笔会文学奖，以表彰他对爱尔兰文学做出的贡献。2014年，他当选美国艺术与文学院外籍荣誉院士。
Content introduction
In Enniscorthy, a small town in the south-east of Ireland, housewife Nora Webster is widowed and struggling to raise four children on her own.
Nora, grieving the loss of her loved one, looks forward to any opportunity to escape her troubles and troubles, and fears that she will return to the monotonous, depressing work life she had before her marriage. On the other hand, residents of small towns live in close proximity, and everyone seems to know each other's secrets. A sensitive Nora becomes self-absorbed, stubborn, and sometimes impatient, defending her family's privacy while ignoring the heartbreak and changes in her two young sons after losing their father.
Gradually, through the strength of her singing talent and friendship, Nora sees a glimmer of hope for a new life.
About the author
Colm Tobin is a famous contemporary Irish writer. Born 1955 in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland. He graduated from University College Dublin. Since the publication of his first novel, The South, in 1990, Tobin has published ten novels, two collections of short stories, a collection of poems, and several plays, travelogues, and essays. Blackwater Lighthouse Ship (1999), The Master (2004), Confessions of Maria (2012) were shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and The Master won the Dublin International Prize for Literature in 2006. Brooklyn won the 2009 Costa Award for Best British novel. "Nora Webster" won the British Hawthornton Literary Prize. In 2011, the Observer named him one of Britain's Three Hundred Most important intellectuals, and in the same year he was awarded the Irish PEN Prize for Literature in recognition of his contribution to Irish literature. In 2014, he was elected an honorary Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Tobin currently holds the Irene and Sidney B. Serverman Chair in Humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and has also served as Chancellor of the University of Liverpool since 2017. In 2022, he was appointed Irish Novelist Laureate (2022-2024) by the Arts Council of Ireland.
目前，托宾担任哥伦比亚大学英文与比较文学系Irene and Sidney B.Silverman人文讲席教授，自2017年起也担任利物浦大学校监。2022年，他被爱尔兰艺术理事会任命为爱尔兰桂冠小说家（2022-2024）。
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