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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
By the author of Four Letters of Love, the international bestseller now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan

'A love letter to literature and storytelling' Eimear McBride
'I am utterly obsessed with Niall Williams' Ann Patchett

In her attic room, with the rain rushing down the windows, Ruthie Swain is trying to find her father through stories.

Brought home after a collapse, she lies surrounded by her father's library of three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight books. But Ruthie's story, and the story of the Swains before her, is rooted not in these books' pages, but in the land - fourteen rain-sodden acres of earth useless for farming, but teeming with stories.

From her bed, Ruthie writes Ireland, with its weather, its rivers, its lilts, and its lows. The stories she recounts bring back to life multiple generations buried in this soil - and they might just bring her back into the world again, too.

'Extremely moving ... By the final chapter I was weeping' Sunday Times
'Dazzling . Paragraph after paragraph begs you to stop and reread it, to relish the lilt of it in your inner ear' The Times
'Beautiful and enchanting . A novel that weaves a love of literature into its own moving tale' Guardian

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014
By the author of Four Letters of Love, the international bestseller now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan

'A love letter to literature and storytelling' Eimear McBride
'I am utterly obsessed with Niall Williams' Ann Patchett

In her attic room, with the rain rushing down the windows, Ruthie Swain is trying to find her father through stories.

Brought home after a collapse, she lies surrounded by her father's library of three thousand, nine hundred and fifty-eight books. But Ruthie's story, and the story of the Swains before her, is rooted not in these books' pages, but in the land - fourteen rain-sodden acres of earth useless for farming, but teeming with stories.

From her bed, Ruthie writes Ireland, with its weather, its rivers, its lilts, and its lows. The stories she recounts bring back to life multiple generations buried in this soil - and they might just bring her back into the world again, too.

'Extremely moving ... By the final chapter I was weeping' Sunday Times
'Dazzling . Paragraph after paragraph begs you to stop and reread it, to relish the lilt of it in your inner ear' The Times
'Beautiful and enchanting . A novel that weaves a love of literature into its own moving tale' Guardian

Über den Autor

Niall Williams was born in Dublin in 1958. His critically acclaimed and bestselling fiction has been shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the IMPAC Award. Williams' debut novel Four Letters of Love, an international bestseller, has been adapted by the author for screen and will star Helena Bonham-Carter, Pierce Brosnan and Gabriel Byrne. His most recent novel Time of the Child was an instant Irish Times bestseller and was awarded the Kerry Group Novel of the Year Award. He lives in Kiltumper in County Clare, with his wife, Christine.
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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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