The Fall of Light
Francis Foley is a proud, stubborn man and cannot stand to be beholden to anyone. Quick to anger and slow to forgiveness, it is his temper that, one day, costs his sons their home - and their mother. As the four boys and their father embark on an odyssey to find untenanted land they can call their own, their already diminished family is divided still further. But if a combination of choice and chance cause the five to separate and scatter, then a series of casual encounters and coincidences offers some hope for reunion and, in Francis's case, redemption. With elegant, elegiac prose, Niall Williams guides his characters and readers through hazard and hardship, friendship, love and death, through Europe, America and Africa and home again.
Picador 2002
Translated into: Dutch
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