History of the Rain : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014

Name: History of the Rain : Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014
Author: Williams
ISBN: 9781408852057

by Williams

ISBN: 9781408852057

Published: 2015-03

Fiction

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE '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...

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