by Jonathan Coe · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070416967
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«La pluie, avant qu'elle tombe» is the novel by Jonathan Coe published by Gallimard Education in the Folio collection, in paperback, in French.
A recording preserves Rosamond's voice after her death: in it, the woman evokes her memories through twenty photographs and traces the story of three generations of women, from the 1940s to the present, with desire, lost childhood and certain magical places as a common thread.
The novel was originally published in English as The Rain Before It Falls (2007); this French edition is a translation by Serge Chauvin and Jamila Ouahmane Chauvin.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction and for fans of Jonathan Coe seeking an intimate story, outside his comic vein.
Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.
