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A carregar... This Is Happiness (2019)por Niall Williams
  
Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  JennyArch | Mar 29, 2024 |    ) asendor | Feb 15, 2024 | is also on the brink of something new - electricity. The story is told by Noel Crowe, a 17 year old who is entranced by Christy and his story of love and loss. After meeting Christy, Noel also falls in and out of love. This is a wonderful story and I enjoyed every moment of it. ( ) rmarcin | Jan 13, 2024 | The plot revolves around a small town in Ireland where the rain stops and electricity comes. With it, an older man named Christy shows up in town and befriends a young man, Noe. It's slowly revealed that Christy has come to Faha to make amends with a woman that he left at the altar decades ago. At the same time, Noe, who lives with his grandparents, is coming into adulthood. He's struggling with his feelings about the church, falling in love, and remembering the death of his mother. I really loved this novel and will read more by Niall Williams when I am in the mood for a book that is insightful, beautifully written, and a bit slower paced. "... I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your head or heart, say This is Happiness, because of the simple truth that you were alive to say it." (  ) japaul22 | Dec 11, 2023 | ) njcur | Dec 5, 2023 |
Rich in sentiment and humour, this evocation of an Irish village in the 1970s examines grief, faith and first love....It takes time for Niall Williams to convince you that tourist fodder isn’t what he’s producing in This Is Happiness...The pleasure of this novel lies in its eye for detail. The plot, having been established, then takes a long time to do not very much more..... He has a humorist’s eye, and his own fond amusement at the people he writes about shines out through the writing. The fields of Ireland are very crowded, but by the conclusion of This Is Happiness, you feel Williams has justified adding another book to the herd. PrémiosNotable Lists
"Change is coming to Faha, a small Irish parish that hasn't changed in a thousand years. For one thing, the rain is stopping. Nobody remembers when it started; rain on the western seaboard is a condition of living. But now - just as Father Coffey proclaims the coming of the electricity - the rain clouds are lifting. Seventeen-year-old Noel Crowe is idling in the unexpected sunshine when Christy makes his first entrance into Faha, bringing secrets he needs to atone for. Though he can't explain it, Noel knows right then: something has changed. As the people of Faha anticipate the endlessly procrastinated advent of the electricity, and Noel navigates his own coming-of-age and his falling in and out of love, Christy's past gradually comes to light, casting a new glow on a small world. Harking back to a simpler time, This Is Happiness is a tender portrait of a community - its idiosyncrasies and traditions, its paradoxes and kindnesses, its failures and triumphs - and a coming-of-age tale like no other. Luminous and lyrical, yet anchored by roots running deep into the earthy and everyday, it is about the power of stories: their invisible currents that run through all we do, writing and rewriting us, and the transforming light that they throw onto our world."--Publisher description. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The known world was not so circumscribed then nor knowledge equated with facts. Story was a kind of human binding....There was telling everywhere. Because there were fewer sources of where to find out anything, there was more listening. (4)
You don't see rain stop, but you sense it. You sense something has changed in the frequency you've been living and you hear the quietness you thought was silence get quieter still... (35)
Everybody carries a world. But certain people change the air about them. That's the best I can say. It can't be explained, only felt. (41)
In a lifetime there's more than one doorway. Even as I was running I think I knew this was one. (48)
You could hardly credit it was the same world you were in yesterday. (69)
The truth turns into a story when it grows old. We all become stories in the end. (82)