Rain is a Song without Lyrics
by Ángel Gil Cheza
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Rain is a Song without Lyrics is a story that could have happened; the descriptions of physical anthropology and archaeology and the real accounts of Ireland’s entangled history and the Viking world connect this fiction with real events, the traces of which are found by the author beneath the Irish rain.
The story is born in the mud of cold Ireland in 2003, where the author worked in an archaeological excavation. After a thousand years of burial, he opened up the ground with his hands and what he found moved him so immensely that he began to feel connected to those mysterious skeletal remains that had one day been a person, who loved and was loved, like any one of us. Rain is a Song without Lyrics is a story that could have been, but wasn't, although the facts that are invented or discovered along the way do not disappoint. The truth of events does not matter as much as what we feel, and in a way our feelings can lead us to the truth.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
An Irish girl and a young Norseman star in an unforgettable tale set against the tumultuous backdrop of the first great battle of the second millennium in Dublin Bay, the Battle of Clontarf, a culmination of centuries of strife and treachery, fought between the Irish and the Vikings. One thousand years later, a young book seller from the Spanish province of Valencia who comes to Ireland to escape justice, infiltrates into a fascinating world made up of archaeologists from all over the world, and excavates a find that changes him as a person, and makes him discover on the green, grey and wet island of Ireland, that we are where we are supposed to be, not where we came from.
The rain plays its song and we each write our own lyrics. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the melody goes with it and our words are clear, precise, like a look between two lovers who don’t want to say goodbye. A thrilling novel, charged with historical flashbacks. A flight through Ireland; stroll through the cobbled streets of the Dublin of 1914 and those of 2003. Rain, friendship, battles, bones, blood, love, embraces, sex, mud and beer.. Each page excites the senses and will compel you to continue reading.
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Meet Ángel Gil Cheza
Ángel Gil Cheza was born in Vila Real, Spain in 1974. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Humanities and a Master’s degree in publishing. At at age of thirteen he played the drums for the punk band Mala Hierba. At fifteen, he founded the fanzine Sátira Coenta and edited the first two editions. At twenty he began singing and playing the guitar. He made his first cassette, Futuro in 1998, the cassette was pirated so many time that it was difficult to find an original copy. In 2005, after a long stay in Ireland, he self released his debut album Con la miel en los labios before retiring from the stage. He has worked as a postman, a forest ranger, an orange picker, a waiter, a publican, a road sweeper, an archaeologist, a builder, a cook, a teacher and a farmer. Nowadays, he cultivates an orange orchard and he continues to work in the publishing world, as well as working as an educator at a center for people at risk of social exclusion.
Rain is a Song without Lyrics Reviews
Brilliant engrossing read, really enjoyed it. Brings one on a riveting journey through Ireland's past and preset, via the mucky mechanism of Celtic Tiger contract archaeology. - K. Rice
An addictive novel! - Babelcube Books
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