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<p><b>Colm Toibin's <i>Brooklyn </i>is a devastating story of love, loss and one woman's terrible choice between duty and personal freedom. </b><br><b></b><br>It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time.</p><p>Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded ...Vis mer