The Rain Before It Falls
By Jonathan Coe
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Sixty years later, just before her death, Rosamond records her memories on cassettes, addressing them to a distant cousin—a near stranger-named Imogen. As Gill, her beloved niece, listens to these tapes, a heart—stopping family saga is revealed. In this masterful portrait of three generations of woman, Jonathan Coe exposes the profound reserves of hope and loss within the lives of ordinary woman.
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe (Birmingham, 1961) estudió en las universidades de Cambridge y Warwick. En Anagrama ha publicado las novelas ¡Menudo reparto! (Premio John Llewellyn Rhys y, en Francia, Premio al Mejor Libro Extranjero): «El horror y el humor van de la mano en esta novela, a la que habrá que recurrir en el futuro cuando uno quiera saber qué sucedió en la Inglaterra de los años ochenta» (Ramón de España); La casa del sueño (Premio Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Best Novel y, en Francia, Premio Médicis Extranjero): «Si se organizase un festival de escritores verdaderamente originales, habría que invitarlo a él» (Javier Aparicio Maydeu, El Periódico); El Club de los Canallas (Premio Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente y Premio Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse): «La más colorida de las novelas sobre los años más grises» (Rodrigo Fresán); El Círculo Cerrado: «Retrato perfecto de la Inglaterra de finales del siglo XX, lleno de sátira. Un libro altamente devorable» (Kiko Amat); La lluvia antes de caer: «Si buscan novelas que no se lean de un tirón y traten al lector con respeto, si les gusta desentrañarlas y demorarse en ellas, háganse con un ejemplar» (Manuel Rodríguez Rivero, El País); La espantosa intimidad de Maxwell Sim: «¡Genial!... Lo tiene todo. Buenísima, apasionante, divertida, cínica, tierna, única; el final es deslumbrante» (Javier Puebla, Cambio 16); Expo 58: «La novela que habría escrito Graham Greene si hubiera leído más de la cuenta a un Evelyn Waugh poderosamente nostálgico» (Laura Fernández, El Mundo); El número 11: «El mejor retrato imaginable de la Inglaterra actual» (David Morán, Rockdelux); y El corazón de Inglaterra: «La mejor novela para entender el divorcio entre el Reino Unido y Europa» (Juan Cruz, El País).
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