TY - BOOK AU - Tóibín, Colm TI - The south: : a novel SN - 9781476704487 AV - PR6070.O455 S68 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Irish fiction KW - Spain KW - Painters KW - Fiction KW - History KW - 1939-1975 N2 - 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 ER -