Four Letters of Love (電影 愛裡行間)

本書由愛爾蘭作家 Niall Williams 所著，是一則關於命運、信念與愛情的故事。小說開場以一句「當我十二歲時，上帝第一次對我父親說話」展開，帶出一段帶有奇蹟氣息的旅程。男女主角 Nicholas 與 Isabel，兩人各自背負童年的傷痕，卻因偶然的相遇，在愛爾蘭西部的小島上逐漸走向彼此。Williams 以細膩的筆觸描繪大自然的景致與人心的脆弱，使故事充滿詩意與靈光。本書既是愛情故事，也是對人性與命運的沉思。

A life-affirming paean to human folly, to fate, and to the miracle of love.
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'A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human love' - The Times

'A delicate and graceful love story . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape' - The New York Times

‘When I was twelve years old God spoke to my father for the first time. God didn’t say much. He told my father to be a painter and left it at that . . .’ So begins Niall Williams’ magical tale about love and destiny.

Strangers Nicholas and Isabel are destined for each other – they just don’t know it yet. As they each struggle to recover from the bruises of their childhood, a chance encounter on a remote island in the west of Ireland hurls them together.

Tender, romantic and profound, the international bestseller Four Letters of Love established Niall Williams as one of Ireland’s most treasured writers, and has become a classic love story that testifies the forces of fate and faith.

Now part of the Picador Collection.

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A breathtaking affirmation of miracles and the power of human love -The Times
A joy, an acutely evocative and sexual story . . . my God I couldn't put it down -Marianne Faithfull
A lyrical and passionate novel shot through with the belief in divine order versus chaos; the belief in destiny and the demonic fight against it, and, in spite of all the evidence that life is cruel and arbitrary, the presence of the supernatural and the manifestation of miracles -Observer
This book can rightly claim its place among the classics of Irish literature. A wonderfully affecting love story -Belfast Telegraph
A delicate and graceful love story that is also an exaltation of love itself . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape . . . Four Letters of Love also gives us Niall Williams's own Ireland, a place devoted to the belief in miracles and the obsessive power of love -The New York Times