by Colm Tóibín · Pan Macmillan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330493734
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«The Heather Blazing» is the literary novel by Colm Tóibín, published by Pan Macmillan in paperback (256 pages, in English).
The novel follows Eamon Redmond, an Irish High Court judge who, nearing retirement, begins to feel the weight of a life devoted to the law and the distance from those around him. Through memories, Tóibín reconstructs his bonds with his father, his first love, his wife and his children, in the landscape of Ireland's east coast.
The work won the RSL Encore Award in 1993. It was originally published in 1992; this edition is part of the Picador Thirty collection.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary Irish narrative, especially those who appreciate family portraits and landscape as a narrative element.
Colm Tóibín is an Irish novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, critic, playwright and poet.
