by Niall Williams · Bloomsbury · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781408852057
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«History of the Rain» is the literary novel by Niall Williams, published by Bloomsbury in hardcover (358 pages, in English).
Ruth Swain, confined to the attic of Faha, County Clare, searches for her father and reconstructs the Swain family history from the reverend to Virgil. Under the rain, among the 3,958 stacked books, the stories of her twin brother Aeney and her ancestors keep the absent alive. A novel about books, love and imagination.
The novel was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. Niall Williams is the author of «Four Letters of Love».
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, particularly those seeking novels about books, families and Ireland.
Niall Williams is an Irish writer of novels, plays, and nonfiction. He is known for his novels Four Letters of Love (1997), As It Is In Heaven (1999), Fall of the Light (2008), History of the Rain (2014), and This Is Happiness (2019).
