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After The Rain
After The Rain
Jul 1, 2025 4:59 AM

Author:Thomas Christopher Greene

After The Rain

They were brothers and they knew each other better than they had ever known anybody, and when you are like this you can sit in silence and not speak and it is the most comfortable thing in the world. But fate can fracture even the strongest of friendships.

In the lush green countryside of Vermont, Charlie has built a life for himself. He is happy enough running the small family restaurant and his only regret is the absence of his brother, Owen. Once close, Owen and Charlie have not seen each other for many years - the ties of brotherhood torn apart by their father's legacy - and a trail of postcards is all that is left.

Charlie's is a solitary existence until he hires Claire to assist him in the restaurant and suddenly life feels complete. In Claire, Charlie feels he has found his reason for living. But when Owen returns it seems that the past is destined to threaten both brothers' future...

Reviews

Moving ... Greene's evocative descriptions of nature, food and love infuse this novel with sensuality and a nostalgia-tinged melancholy'

—— Publishers Weekly

Has the paranoid, hallucinatory feel of a mind slowly breaking down... It's a bold response to Serbia's bloodstained history

—— Claire Allfree , Metro

A masterpiece, a thrilling maelstrom of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies

—— Die Zeit

Kafka for our times

—— Neue Zürcher Zeitung

Albahari is one of the great writers of this world and we do not know it, or not enough

—— La Vie Littéraire

Snapshots of brilliance

—— Metro

The former junkie and 'hardcore troubadour' has fought his demons and found God. Now he wants to show us how it's done

—— The Times

Earle seems to have little trouble expanding his range from a three-minute song to a 300-page narrative... And though the novel comes no closer to establishing the facts of Hank Williams's death, it certainly reveals a good deal of truth behind it

—— Alfred Hickling , Guardian

A witty, heartfelt story of hope, forgiveness and redemption

—— Booklist
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