The Sign of the Cross

Travels in Catholic Europe

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Colm Toibin

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Colm Toibin is one of Ireland's most distinguished young writers; he is also a lapsed Catholic. Yet over a succession of Holy Weeks, Toibin found himself travelling to places where Catholicism still possesses mystery and power, from Poland to Lithuania, from Lourdes to Santiago, and from Croatia to Ireland. And in seeing how the faith persisted in other people's lives, he discovered how it still resonated in his own. In this beautifully observed work of travel writing and spiritual reportage, Toibin turns his eye on Catholicism's rituals and processions, its high-minded fanatics and humble communicants. He shows how it ripples outward into the history and politics of homelands. Yet Toibin also encounters the cross-shaped wound that lies at his own centre--and it is his unflinching examination of that wound that makes The Sign of the Cross as moving as it is perceptive and urbane.

Author Biography:

Colm Tóibin was born in Ireland in 1955, and lives in Dublin. He is the author of four novels, including the 1999 Booker nominated The Blackwater Lightship. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona, The Sign of the Cross, and, most recently, Love in a Dark Time.

Release date Australia

May 21st, 2010

Author

Colm Toibin

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Interest Age

From 18 years

Pages

256

Dimensions

129x197x16

ISBN-13

9780330373579

Product ID

1730270

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