The Rain Before it Falls

Resumen del libro

A heartbreaking novel of family secrets from one of the masters of modern fiction, The Rain Before it Falls is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classicsDeeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one family riven by tragedy. When Rosamund, a reluctant bearer of family secrets, dies suddenly, a mystery is left for her niece Gill to unravel. Some photograph albums and tapes point towards a blind girl named Imogen whom no one has seen in twenty years.

The search for Imogen and the truth of her inheritance becomes a shocking story of mothers and daughters and of how sadness, like a musical refrain, may haunt us down the years. 'A sad, often very moving story of mothers and daughters' Guardian'Entirely compelling...the plot will keep you rapt...reminiscent of Ian McEwan at his most effective' New Statesman

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p Jonathan Coe (Birmingham, 1961) estudió en las universidades de Cambridge y Warwick, y ha sido colaborador de London Review of Books y The Times Literary Supplement. En Anagrama ha publicado cinco novela, que lo han consagrado como uno de los mejores escritores de su generación, empezando por ¡Menudo reparto!, que fue galardonada con el Premio The Mail on Sunday/John Lewellyn Rhys y, en Francia, con el Prix Meilleur Livre Étranger. Su novela posterior, La casa del sueño, obtuvo el Writer's Guild Best Fiction y, en Francia, el Prix Médicis Étranger. La siguiente, El Club de los Canallas, obtuvo el Premio Arcebispo San Clemente, otorgado en Santiago de Compostel. Coe retomó a los protagonistas de esta novela veinte años después, en la Inglaterra de Blair, en El Círculo Cerrado.x{0026}lt;/p