by Niall Williams · Picador · tapa dura · ISBN 9780330487016
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«The Fall of Light» is the historical and literary fiction novel by Niall Williams, published by Picador in hardcover (352 pages, in English).
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, it tells how the Foley family, after losing their home and Emer, wife and mother, crosses the country towards the western coast in search of a new land. Francis Foley, the embittered father, scatters his family, and the novel follows their paths through Ireland and beyond, amid loss, consolation, freedom and dreams.
The Fall of Light is Niall Williams's third novel, following Four Letters of Love (1997) and As It Is in Heaven (1999).
For readers of literary and historical fiction seeking novels set in rural nineteenth-century 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).
