History of the Rain
By the Author of Four Letters of Love, Now a Major Film Starring Helena Bonham Carter and Pierce Brosnan
1st Edition
Published on 10. April 2014
368 pages
978-1-4088-5201-9 (ISBN)
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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
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
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-5201-9 (9781408852019)
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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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Content
- Cover
- Praise for History of the Rain
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- ONE
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- Chapter 18
- Chapter 19
- Chapter 20
- TWO
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Chapter 11
- Chapter 12
- Chapter 13
- Chapter 14
- Chapter 15
- Chapter 16
- Chapter 17
- THREE
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
- Also Available by Niall Williams
- eCopyright
