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About the novel JOHN. It begins like this. I am sitting in the front room looking down the garden. It is a day in early summer. My mind is idling. I am in the kind of lazy stillness where I am not thinking anything at all, just looking out through the long windows on the coming blossoms of the Japanese maple.
21 de dic. de 2019 · 527. By Niall Williams. Mr. Williams is the author, most recently, of the novel “This Is Happiness.”. Recently I have been forced to think a bit about happiness. It’s not something I’ve ...
4 de feb. de 2022 · It’s not about plot. It’s a meandering through a few months in the life of Faha as experienced by a drifting, thoughtful, sensitive 17-year-old. Not much major happens in this novel. Many tiny things, significant in their tininess, do. Williams is strong on description. Wait, that’s too mild.
Written by Niall Williams. History of the Rain was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2014. In Niall Williams’ celebration of books, love and the healing power of the imagination, a bedridden daughter of a dead poet searches for her father. Bedbound in her attic room beneath the falling rain, in the margin between this world and the next ...
10 de abr. de 2014 · Niall Williams writes like an angel - if angels were writers - and he has created a narrator, Ruth Swain, who narrates like an angel - if angels were narrators. History of the Rain is an ode to the imagination, and to storytelling, and to books, and to reading, and to Ireland, and to what it means to live.
Niall Williams talks to Mary McCarthy Born in Dublin in 1958 the writer Niall Williams has been quietly prolific since the success of his first novel, Four Letters of Love , in 1997. His eighth book, History of the Rain , was long-listed for the Booker Prize in 2014, and his latest novel, This is Happiness , just got nominated for best novel in the Irish Book Awards.
Niall Williams (* 6. August 1958 in Dublin, Irland) ist ein irischer Schriftsteller und Theaterautor. Leben. Williams studierte am University College Dublin die Fächer Englische und Französische Literatur und schloss dort mit dem Masterdegree in ...
