Four Letters Of Love
The international bestseller, now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan
Published on 15. December 2014
352 pages
978-1-4472-7511-4 (ISBN)
Description
Now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan.
A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to the power of true love. With an introduction by actor John Hurt.
'A delicate and graceful love story . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape' - The New York Times
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.
Magical and deeply romantic, Niall Williams' Four Letters of Love has moved readers the world over and became an international bestseller. It is a life-affirming tribute to human folly, to fate, and to the miracle of love.
A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to the power of true love. With an introduction by actor John Hurt.
'A delicate and graceful love story . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape' - The New York Times
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.
Magical and deeply romantic, Niall Williams' Four Letters of Love has moved readers the world over and became an international bestseller. It is a life-affirming tribute to human folly, to fate, and to the miracle of love.
Reviews / Votes
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 . . . a luminously written, magical work of fiction . . . Extraordinarily rooted in the Irish language and landscape . . . Yet in its serious fancifulness, its feverish intensities, 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 * New York Times *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
File size
1,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4472-7511-4 (9781447275114)
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Niall Williams
Four Letters Of Love
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01/2015
Picador
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Person
Niall Williams was born in 1958 and lives in Kiltumper, Ireland, with his wife Christine and their two children. He is the author of several novels, including Four Letters of Love, which was sold in over twenty countries and an international bestseller.
