With an introduction by Roy FosterA classic work of Irish literature, this award-winning novel is an exploration of love, art and identity. This was the night train to Barcelona, some hours before the dawn.This was 1950, late September. I had left my husband. I had left my home. Katherine Proctor has dared to leave her family in Ireland and reach out for a new life.Determined to become an artist, she flees to Spain, where she meets Miguel, a passionate man who has fought for his own freedoms.They retreat to the quiet intensity of the mountains and begin to build a life together.But as Miguel's past catches up with him, Katherine too is forced to re-examine her relationships: with her lover, her painting and the homeland she only thought she knew. . . The South is the book that introduced readers to the astonishing gifts of Colm TóibÃn, winning the Irish Times First Fiction Award in 1991.Arrestingly visual and enduringly atmospheric, it is a classic novel of art, sacrifice, and courage.
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