Sheltering Rain: the captivating and emotional novel from the author of Me Before You

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Shinjuku itself is in a constant state of flux in the novel, being reshaped, replacing the Ginza as the entertainment-heart of the city, and becoming more vibrant (and less seedy) with the expansion of the local trains stations -- which also brings more interest from outsiders, including gangsters. Foreign Fruit“ от 2003 г. печели награда за най-добър роман на годината от Асоциацията на писателите на любовни романи. Komei even introduces his old friend to bartender Senda -- "a character in a lot of my stories", he explains. Several of the stories also revolve around romance and specifically marriage, a settling down that not all the characters find themselves capable of. A real love that survived the slings and arrows of fate that soared, like some kind of 1950's Romeo and Juliet, above the petty and mundane. The kind of love you read about in books, that inspired songs, that lifted you like a bird yet stood solid, like a monolith, vast, all-encompassing, enduring. . .

The milieu Hanmura describes is a uniform one, even if the cast of characters around them differs from place to place, and they are also unified against the changes constantly encroaching on them -- even if there is only so much they can stem the tide. I can still feel the familiar ache just looking at the cover of Sheltering Rain, it's sheer bliss then it isn't. I can never look at it the same way again without feeling lonely. Kate's going through a bit of a rough patch and decides to send her sixteen year old daughter, Sabine, to stay with her parents in Ireland while she sorts things out. Her mother and father, Joy and Edward, take Sabine into their home despite the fact that their relationship with Kate has been very strained for many years. The focus of the story then shifts to rural Ireland in the late 1990s. Joy is now a grandmother and Sabine, the child of her estranged daughter, has come to stay. Sabine’s mother Kate is coming out of yet another bad relationship and has essentially dumped Sabine at Joy’s farm while she tries to get her life together. Als Hörbuch wirklich richtig schön zu hören, mit einer wunderbaren Sprecherin, die ich wirklich unheimlich gerne höre.Joy es la matriarca de la familia. Es madre de Kate y abuela de Sabine. Las tres aparentemente sólo tienen la sangre como vínculo de conexión, ya que no podrían ser dueñas de personalidades y gustos más antagónicos. Sin embargo, la decisión de Kate de enviar a su hija para pasar unos tiempos con la abuela (a la que no visita desde hace muchos años) nos proporcionará la oportunidad de conocerlas mejor y entender lo que está detrás de esas supuestas diferencias de carácter y por qué hay tanta pena y frialdad entre los diversos elementos de la familia. desvanecen poco después de su desenlace. Sus protagonistas son mujeres interesantes, poseedoras de carisma y no es difícil crear lazos con las tres. Pero considero que la autora podría haber explorado más la historia que nos muestras más en las primeras palabras de la narrativa. Joy tiene potencial para protagonizar "en solitario" las 416 páginas de la obra, pero todo lo que se desenvuelve a su alrededor, sobre todo en el momento presente y que es a menudo superfluo, nos hace olvidarnos de la mujer que vivió en Hong Kong, que siguió a su marido, oficial de la Marina, por los diversos rincones del mundo y que estableció con él su hogar definitivo en una aldea de Irlanda, creando y amando caballos. Una mujer intrépida, arisca, temperamental, pero sobre todo amante de los suyos, aunque no siempre lo consigue demostrar de forma clara.

Sabine hates Ireland. She hates the farm and horses, and finds her iron-willed grandmother Joy very difficult to get to know, understand and get on with. Sabine also finds it very difficult to communicate with her old grandfather, misses all her friends and life in London and is still bitter and exasperated with her mother. Over time however, as we learn about all three generations of women and understand them all a bit better, the fragile relationships between the three appear to be slowly mending themselves. Before that happens there is still a lot of heart-ache to go through for all three, secrets to be unearthed and bridges to be built. Regreso a Irlanda es un retrato de familia que nos cuenta la historia de tres generaciones de mujeres de la misma familia y su narrativa va saltando en el tiempo y en el espacio. En sus páginas iniciales nos transporta hasta Hong Kong por la coronación de la reina Elizabete II, a medida que nos adentramos en la trama pasaremos temporadas en Londres y en la parte rural de Irlanda, donde viven en el momento presente las referidas protagonistas.Il pretesto per avvicinare prima nonna e nipote, e poi madre e figlia, è tipico di queste storie, le foto della nonna e della mamma da giovani, che Sabine ritrova in vecchie scatole abbandonate in una stanza chiusa e impolverata.