POSITIVE REVIEW

The Colm Tóibín' s novel, Brooklyn, is certainly a touching romance that transport also those who do not particularly like the genre.
The book debates very important topics like the immigration of the 1950s which is equally an issue that concerns the current society.
Eilis Lacey, a young woman from Ireland is pressed from her family to go to America where a priest offered her a job in Brooklyn. Here she find a lot of difficulties to bled into that New World and only when she makes friends and finds love, an urgent call want her to come back to Ireland.
The novelist describes with attention and preciousness Ellis' feelings so as to ensure that the reader identifies herself in the protagonist. The use of language of the writer is very simple so that everyone could understand but at the same time he uses a lot of adjectives to increase phrases. The writer's skills can be seen in the way he deal with difficult themes, as immigration, trying to make them understandable to every type of reader.
In the focal part of the book, protagonist is torment by a big interrogative: follow the duty or her desire to be finally free?