History of the Rain  -  Niall Williams

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014

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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, i...
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2014 Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 360 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 1408852020 ISBN-13: 9781408852026