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Chargement... Quatre lettres d'amour (1997)par Niall Williams
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  N.W.Moors | Mar 27, 2023 |    ) adrianburke | Sep 9, 2020 | ) haymaai | Jul 13, 2015 | OperaMan_22 | Feb 20, 2012 |  )1  c_why | Jan 28, 2012 |
 Nicholas Coughlan’s father leaves public services, abandons his family, and goes to paint on God’s calling.Nicholas’ mother dies after sometime when his father returns from painting.Nicholas spent a desperate and sad childhood when his father was away painting.Nicholas was sure that his family was surrounded by cloud of unhappiness.He was waiting for miracle. After his mother died, God spoke to his father again.His father left for painting.Nicholas was sure that there has been no such thing as God’s calling and that his father was wrong about it.Nicholas took to public services to pay bills for both his father and himself.Nicholas father died. Isabel Gore was amazing dancer and dances to the tune of his brother Sean, a musical prodigy.Unless one day fit strikes Sean and he loses his speech and freedom of movement while playing tune to which Isabel was dancing.Isabel, full of guilt because of his brother’s state and her family’s expectation. goes to Galway school.She falls in love and marries Peader. But the book said Nicholas Coughlan and Isabel Gore were made for each other. Until part four of the book, there was no connection between Nicholas and Isabel.I was now getting desperate to know how Nicholas and Isabel meet after all.And it is breathtaking to read how series of event lead Nicholas to Isabel. I was reading Niall William for the first time.And I am so waiting to read novels written by him.Four letters of love is lyrical and mystical. It is a story of love and lost and hope and faith. The relationship beween Nicholas father and mother,Isabel’s father and mother, Isabel and Peader, Nicholas and Isabel is very beautifully written.I could see how life shattered in relationships and how people are tied to each other because of four lettered word ‘Love’.This book does tell that love is all about hope and faith. I could not drop the book once it took its pace.And the book is so well written that you dont want to miss anything in it.Ireland is described very beautifully in some parts.The books is easy to read.It is divided in Seven parts and each part contains small chapters. I just wish Isabel’s mother would have given her four letters written by Nicholas.But fate takes its own turn. The book does become too desciptive at times but i think we can bear a bit of it.Some of the things in the book seem a bit unreal but they do go well in the context written.I think the wrong part of this book can be ignored if you want Prix et récompenses
Nicholas Coughlan is twelve years old when his father, an Irish civil servant, announces that God has commanded him to become a painter. He abandons the family and a wife who is driven to despair. Years later, Nicholas's own civil-service career is disrupted by tragic news: his father has burned down the house, with all his paintings and himself in it. Isabel Gore is the daughter of a poet. She's a passionate girl, but her brother is the real prodigy, a musician. And yet this family, too, is struck by tragedy: a seizure leaves the boy mute and unable to play. Years later, Isabel will continue to somehow blame herself, casting off her own chances for happiness. And then, the day after Isabel's wedding to man she doesn't love, Nicholas arrives on her western isle, seeking his father's last surviving painting. Suddenly the winds of fortune begin to shift, sweeping both these souls up with them. Nicholas and Isabel, it seems, were always meant to meet. But it will take a series of chance events--and perhaps, a proper miracle--to convince both to follow their hearts to where they're meant to be. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The writing is exquisite:
“The skies we slept under were too uncertain for forecasts. They came and went on the moody gusts of the Atlantic, bringing half a dozen weathers in an afternoon and playing all four movements of a wind symphony, allegro, andante, scherzo and adagio on the broken backs of white waves.”
My only quibble is that I thought the ending was a bit rushed, but maybe that's because I wanted the book to go on. It's a lovely story that evokes the best of Ireland. (