Memoir
Sign of the Cross
2025·256 pages
Colm Tóibín explores Catholic Europe, reflecting on faith and personal grief in this travel memoir.
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Colm Tóibín explores Catholic Europe, reflecting on faith and personal grief in this travel memoir.
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Part travelogue, part reportage, part autobiography, The Sign of the Cross is the story of Colm Tóibín's religious pilgrimage across Europe. Between 1990 and 1994, Colm Tóibín made a series of trips through Catholic Europe. His journey led him into close contact with people from all walks of life, from priests to politicians, from the intellectually open to the spiritually bigoted. He then set down his impressions in The Sign of the Cross , a beautifully written book filled with personal detail ...
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Central focus on Catholic rituals, traditions, and personal faith reflections.
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