Lorsqu'il rencontre Gabriella Castoldi, Stephen Griffin vacille. D'un coup d'archet elle fait danser l'air, elle efface son douloureux passé. Et là-bas à l'ouest du Kerry, en cette présence jamais oubliée de la mer, Stephen s'abandonne, enfin, à la vie.Revenants, parfum de lys et philtre d'amour, Comme au ciel renoue avec un réalisme magique, où le destin et la passion s'embrasent.

Comme au ciel

A beautiful and moving novel about a young boy's journey from childhood to adulthood from the bestselling author of Four Letters of Love

 Niall Williams draws us into life in a small village in Ireland where a boy is growing up and making his first tentative steps to becoming a man. Questioning everything in an attempt to make sense of the world he is discovering through books, he is on the cusp of an understanding of what it is to be a man. But, when the Master, his caring old guardian, gives him a letter from his long-dead mother, his world comes crashing down.

 Learning for the first time that his father is not dead, as he had been led to believe, the boy must relearn everything he thought he knew. He sets out to find his father, piecing together the information he can glean from his mother's letter: he is a journalist for the BBC, he has lived in London, and he is a Muslim.

 The boy sets out to find his father. Arriving in London, disorientated and alone, he finds himself at the centre of a terrorist attack as the BBC is bombed and hundreds are killed and injured. Taken under the caring wing of Sister Bridget, a nun also caught up in the chaos, he refuses to allow this catastrophe to move him from his goal; he must find his father.

 This is the heart-warming tale of a young boy trying to find his way in a changing world, a world where no-one is safe and where terrorists seek to destroy all that civilisation holds dear.

Boy in the World

Sur une île au large de Galway, Isabel se résigne à sa destinée : un mariage imparfait et un frère qui ne guérira pas. Venu de la banlieue de Dublin, Nicholas est à la recherche du dernier tableau de son père. Tous deux attendent un signe. Leur rencontre est un foudroiement, une évidence. Quatre lettres d'amour sont écrites. Sous le ciel irlandais, les amants condamnés d'avance ont-ils une chance ?

Quatre lettres d'amour

In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books priced at £1. The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine. The Unrequited by Niall Williams is to be one of the first. 'The Unrequited' opens with the arrival in Oslo of Raphael Newell, a Dublin accountant. Someone who has always previously lived on the margins of life, Ray has come to Norway find the married woman he has fallen in love with. Rejuevnated and invigorated by the experience of being in love, Ray sees the world differently; everything and everyone around him is transformed, and he feels for the first time that he has really come alive. Recounting the couple's first meeting alongside Ray's Norwegian quest, The Unrequited is both love story and fable, both a story for our times and -- in the themes of love, life and loss it explores -- one that is timeless; a story for all ages, in all senses of the word.

PICADOR SHOTS - 'The Unrequited'

Après une jeunesse paisible sur une petite île au large de Galway, Isabel Gore se résigne à un mariage de raison. Dans la banlieue de Dublin, l'enfance de Nicholas Coughlan chavire le jour où son père abandonne son travail pour devenir peintre. A sa mort, le jeune homme se met en quête de sa dernière toile en possession de la famille Gore. Dès l'instant où Isabel et Nicholas se rencontrent, ils sont foudroyés. C'est pourtant sans espoir. A moins que le ciel ne vienne en aide aux amants séparés... Quatre lettres d'amour ne craint pas de s'aventurer sur le terrain du merveilleux, et nous dit l'âme irlandaise, la magie d'aimer, l'enfance perdue et le miracle d'être vivant. Un récit flamboyant où chaque signe du hasard est une promesse d'enchantement.

Love is not easy, especially if you find the woman of your dreams and then lose her - as Philip Griffin and his son Stephen each discover in turn. Stephen is just a boy when his mother and sister are killed in a car crash, and his father never recovers from the accident: he wasn't involved but is consumed by grief, his only desire to be reunited with his wife. Before that happens, though, Philip wants to ensure the happiness of his son, Stephen - now a grown man. 'As it is in Heaven, Niall Williams' tale of love and tragedy, will leave you in tears' Tatler 'A bitter-sweet novel about passionate love giving way to commitment, grief to a sort of healing' Irish Times 'A tender and sober novel with a faith in romance that is absolute' Daily Express 'Delicious coincidence and tragedy, as extraordinary lives unravel and intertwine' Guardian

As It Is In Heaven

A classic love story and a seminal work of Irish literature that is a testament to romance, magic and the power of true love. With an introduction by actor John Hurt. In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happiness holds forever, but only the constant whirring forward motion of desire and need.

Four Letters Of Love - Picador Classic

Quatrième de couvertureLorsqu'il rencontre Gabriella Castoldi, Stephen Griffin vacille. D'un coup d'archet elle fait danser l'air, elle efface son douloureux passé. Et là-bas à l'ouest du Kerry, en cette présence jamais oubliée de la mer, Stephen s'abandonne, enfin, à la vie.Revenants, parfum de lys et philtre d'amour, Comme au ciel renoue avec un réalisme magique, où le destin et la passion s'embrasent.

Comme au ciel

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