History of the Rain
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ISBN13:9781408852026
出版社:Bloomsbury UK
作者:History of the Rain
出版日:2014/04/10
裝訂/頁數:精裝/368頁
規格:23.4cm*15.3cm (高/寬)
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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
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.
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“This is an important new book and, without spoiling the riveting last chapter next Friday, the rewards increase tenfold the further into the story one gets” – Book at Bedtime, Radio Times
“A surge of language, beautiful and enchanting, a novel that weaves a love of literature into its own moving tale” – Guardian
“Extremely moving, poignantly capturing Ruth’s doomed childhood relationship with her twin brother. By the final chapter I was weeping” – Sunday Times
“The Anne Enright award for the Irish novel most guaranteed to make you cry … Niall Williams wins this year’s award on the strength of his title alone … Suffused with warmth and humour” – Independent on Sunday
“A rambling, soft-hearted Irish family saga stuffed with eccentricity, literature, anecdotes, mythology, humour and heartbreak from the author of Four Letters of Love” – Kirkus
“Williams’ poetic prose meanders from page to page and becomes one with her voice in a poignant story about family, identity, love and loss, pain, faith and hope” – Monocle
“Extremely funny and clever, and packed with beautiful imagery. This is a brave and wildly imaginative novel, that certainly stands out in a genre of its own” – Western Mail
“A celebration of books, love and the healing power of the imagination” – Irish Independent
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