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The South (novel)
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The South is a 1990 novel by Irish
writer Colm Tóibín
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Katherine, a Protestant woman from Ireland, arrives in Barcelona
in the 1950s having left her husband and son. Very slowly she starts discovering the city and gets to meet local painters. The dictatorship of Francisco Franco
and the still recent civil war are present in the characters' past. She meets the artist Miguel and they both move to a remote village in the Pyrenees
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The novel was first published by Serpent's Tail in 1990 and a revised edition was published by Picador Press. ISBN 0-330-33985-0
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
writer Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín is a multi-award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, critic, and, most recently, poet.Tóibín is Leonard Milberg Lecturer in Irish Letters at Princeton University in New Jersey and succeeded Martin Amis as professor of creative writing at the...
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Katherine, a Protestant woman from Ireland, arrives in Barcelona
Barcelona
Barcelona is the second largest city in Spain after Madrid, and the capital of Catalonia, with a population of 1,621,537 within its administrative limits on a land area of...
in the 1950s having left her husband and son. Very slowly she starts discovering the city and gets to meet local painters. The dictatorship of Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...
and the still recent civil war are present in the characters' past. She meets the artist Miguel and they both move to a remote village in the Pyrenees
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain...
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The novel was first published by Serpent's Tail in 1990 and a revised edition was published by Picador Press. ISBN 0-330-33985-0