Tóibín, Colm 1955-

The south : a novel / Colm Tóibín. - 1st Scribner trade paperback ed. - New York : Scribner, 2012. - 227 pages ; 21 cm.

In 1950 Katherine Proctor leaves Ireland for Barcelona, determined to escape her family and become a painter. There she meets Miguel, an anarchist veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and begins to build a life with him. But Katherine cannot escape her past, as Michael Graves, a fellow Irish émigré in Spain, forces her to reexamine all her relationships: to her lover, her art, and the homeland she only thought she knew.

9781476704487

2012036632


Irish fiction--Spain
Painters--Fiction


Spain--History--1939-1975--Fiction

PR6070.O455 / S68 2012