From Colm Tóibín, "one of the world's best living literary writers" ( The Boston Globe ), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America--about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as "his generation's most gifted writer of love's complicated, contradictory power" ( Los Angeles Times ), Colm Tóibín is a master of short fiction as well as the novel, able to summon an extraordinary intensity of emotion in a brief tale. The eleven stories transport readers across continents and eras. In "The Journey to Galway," a mother who has learned of the death of her son, a fighter pilot in World War I, travels to Galway to inform his wife and their three now fatherless children. "Sleep," originally published in The New Yorker , explores the rift between two lovers as one of them cannot reckon with his grief and fear after the death of his brother. Death, again, is a central character in the title story, "The News from Dublin," as Maurice Webster travels to Dublin to try to save his younger brother who is dying of tuberculosis. Maurice must petition the health minister for access to a new experimental drug, and this is the only hope. Tóibín's stories are rich with the complexities of family dynamics, the haunting pull of the past, and the quiet revelations that define our lives. His characters, whether navigating the aftermath of war, or forbidden love, or the desires of a girl in Catalan, or the quiet struggles mundane life, are rendered with illuminating, unforgettable empathy and insight. The News from Dublin is an exquisite introduction to Tóibín's short fiction for new readers who may have discovered Tóibín with the publication of Long Island , and a glorious new collection for longtime fans of this "achingly beautiful writer...with infinite compassion" ( The Miami Herald ). Praise for Long Island "I was captivated. A wonderful page-turner to start your summer reading." --Oprah Winfrey "A brilliant novel. Beautifully crafted... makes for a riveting, wonderful read." --Elizabeth Strout, The Guardian "Eilis is an interesting and vivid character because she manages to make her destiny her choice... In her own mind, and in the eyes of sympathetic readers, she is free." --New York Times Book Review "Deeply felt but resolutely unsentimental... Tóibín uses masterly restraint to dramatize how lives can be destabilized by desire." --The New Yorker "Stunning." --People "Tóibín, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what's next." --Los Angeles Times "Momentous and hugely affecting. These pendant novels, will be the fiction for which this wonderful writer is best remembered." --Wall Street Journal "Tóibín has created a novel not to be missed." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Rich and doubly suspenseful... Tóibín, a master of his art, exploits to exquisite effect at the end, leaving us to wonder, yet again, what's next." --Los Angeles Times "Dazzling yet devastating... Tóibín is simply one of the world's best living literary writers..." --The Boston Globe "Entrancing... riveting from the first page." --The Economist "About secrets and dreams and the conflict of desire over duty... Long Island is a wonder, rich with yearning and regret." --Minneapolis Star Tribune "Tóibín's storytelling is rich and full of tension as he explores the complexities of life, the decisions we make, and the consequences that result." --Glamour "The quiet, moving story is told from the perspectives of different characters, each with a heartbreaking inability to express what they truly desire." --AARP "Fifteen years ago, Colm Tóibín won readers' hearts with his best-selling novel Brooklyn . Now, with the sequel, Long Island , he just might break them... Tóibín writes beautifully about the struggle between the comfort of the familiar and the hope for something better." --Columbia Magazine "Tóibín's latest sees the return of one of his most beloved heroines from his novel Brooklyn and deftly explores the longings of a woman who finds herself alone in her tilted marriage." --The Chicago Review of Books Praise for Mothers and Sons "Brilliant... transfixing." -- The New York Times Book Review "Though each story stands alone--as do the characters--the magic of Mothers and Sons is how beautifully they come together as a whole." -- The Miami Herald "Everything we've come to expect of Tóibín: chilled, sharp prose revealing complex, contradictory feelings, and an equally acute eye for the way character and environment trigger action... A beautiful, seamless, affecting piece of writing." -- The Seattle Times "Colm Tóibín is one of those extraordinary artists whose work is a kind of dramatic dialogue between an icily observant intellect and a tender heart. . . . Mothers and Sons establishes him as a short story writer of first ra