«The Fall of Light» by Niall Williams
«The Fall of Light» by Niall Williams
English | ISBN: 9781447260462 | MP3@64 kbps | 12h 45m | 350.6 MB
English | ISBN: 9781447260462 | MP3@64 kbps | 12h 45m | 350.6 MB
Francis Foley is a proud, stubborn man, and cannot stand to be beholden to anyone. Quick to anger and slow to forgiveness, it is his temper that, one day, costs his sons their home – and their mother. This will not be the last of their losses however: as the four boys and their father embark on an odyssey to find untenanted land they can call their own, their already diminished family is divided still further. But if a combination of choice and chance cause the five to separate and scatter, each to their own road, then a series of casual encounters and coincidences offer some hope for reunion and – in Francis's case – redemption.
Set in Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, The Fall of Light traces the footsteps of the five Foley men. With elegant, elegiac prose, Niall Williams guides his characters – and his readers – through hazard and hardship, friendship, love and death, through to Europe, America and Africa . . . and home again.