by Jonathan Coe · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141033211
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«The Rain Before It Falls» is the contemporary fiction novel by Jonathan Coe, published by Penguin Books in paperback (278 pages, in English).
Rosamund, ill in Shropshire, records before she dies her story and that of Imogen, a blind girl who appeared at a family party years earlier. After her death, her niece Gill tries to reconstruct that past with photographs and tapes; Imogen's trail leads to a tale of mothers and daughters, secrets and absences spanning three generations.
For readers of literary fiction and family sagas, with particular interest in generational dramas and secrets spanning several eras.
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.
