# An 'ageless' new novella — retained record

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source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:semafor)  published 2026-09-03 14:41 ingested 2026-09-04 02:54

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The Bridge by Colm Tóibín.
Deep in the Pyrenees mountains, a young man, Miquel, struggles in the wake of his mother’s death in a snowstorm — a tragic event that was at the center of Tóibín’s 2006 novella, A Long Winter.
One year after her passing, Miquel wrestles with grief, desire, and the weight of change as the construction of a new bridge stands to open up his remote village.
“The Bridge stays in the mind less as a historically specific story of 20th-century development than as an ageless study of loss, betrayal and survival,” The Guardian wrote. Buy The Bridge from your local bookstore.
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