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History of the Rain
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
Taschenbuch von Niall Williams
Sprache: Englisch

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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...

Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to grandfather Abraham, to her father, Virgil - via pole-vaulting, leaping salmon, poetry and the three thousand, nine hundred and fifty eight books piled high beneath the two skylights in her room, beneath the rain.

The stories - of her golden twin brother Aeney, their closeness even as he slips away; of their dogged pursuit of the Swains' Impossible Standard and forever falling just short; of the wild, rain-sodden history of fourteen acres of the worst farming land in Ireland - pour forth in Ruthie's still, small, strong, hopeful voice. A celebration of books, love and the healing power of the imagination, this is an exquisite, funny, moving novel in which every sentence sings.
We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling. In Faha, County Clare, everyone is a long story...

Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next, Plain Ruth Swain is in search of her father. To find him, enfolded in the mystery of ancestors, Ruthie must first trace the jutting jaw lines, narrow faces and gleamy skin of the Swains from the restless Reverend Swain, her great-grandfather, to grandfather Abraham, to her father, Virgil - via pole-vaulting, leaping salmon, poetry and the three thousand, nine hundred and fifty eight books piled high beneath the two skylights in her room, beneath the rain.

The stories - of her golden twin brother Aeney, their closeness even as he slips away; of their dogged pursuit of the Swains' Impossible Standard and forever falling just short; of the wild, rain-sodden history of fourteen acres of the worst farming land in Ireland - pour forth in Ruthie's still, small, strong, hopeful voice. A celebration of books, love and the healing power of the imagination, this is an exquisite, funny, moving novel in which every sentence sings.
Über den Autor
Niall Williams
Zusammenfassung
Selected as a BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime'
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 358 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408852057
ISBN-10: 1408852055
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Williams, Niall
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Niall Williams
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.03.2015
Gewicht: 0,26 kg
Artikel-ID: 105144909
Über den Autor
Niall Williams
Zusammenfassung
Selected as a BBC Radio 4 'Book at Bedtime'
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 358 S.
ISBN-13: 9781408852057
ISBN-10: 1408852055
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Williams, Niall
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 128 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Niall Williams
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.03.2015
Gewicht: 0,26 kg
Artikel-ID: 105144909
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