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.