A modern 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 was Colm Tóibín's debut novel, winning the Irish Times First Fiction Award in 1991. 'An imaginative, deeply felt and evocative tale' – The Sunday Times'Colm Tóibín writes prose of a heartbreaking beauty'– Hilary MantelPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. Read Long Island, the Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Colm Tóibín's beloved Brooklyn.