Colm Tóibín
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Don't tell me how it ended.
Don't give me anymore.
And I began to imagine that summer.
And I began to imagine the years afterwards.
And I began to imagine the woman hearing the news that this general, she's completely put him out of her mind for very good reasons, was coming back and wanted to see her.
What's she going to do that day where after 55 years, this man is going to come?
And, you know, of course, she was pregnant at the end of the war.
And he's the father.
But she's never told anybody who the father was.
And she doesn't want to see him.
And she does.
She does.
She doesn't.
She does.
She doesn't.
I don't know what I'm going to do.
But when the man told me the story that day, and that certainly was a good 20 years ago, I realized...
I have a new story.
No matter what happens, I'm going to write that story.
Yeah, it was in the New Yorker about a decade ago.