See moreA stunning collection of nine stories that teases out the delicate and difficult strands woven between mothers and sons.
Beautifully captured moments of longing and loss. -- The Guardian
Mothers and Sons is a sensitive meditation on the dramas surrounding this most elemental of relationships. Psychologically intricate and emotionally incisive, each story focuses on a moment in which an unspoken balance shifts; in which a mother or son do battle, or experience a sudden crisis, thus leaving their conception of who they are subtly or seriously altered.
This is an acute, masterful and moving collection that confirms Colm Tóibìn as a great prose stylist of our time.
Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.