This is happiness.

It's the late 1950s and in Faha, a small village in Ireland where life has remained the same and unchanged for almost a thousand years, they are still waiting for a miracle: the arrival of electricity. One Holy Wednesday, however, completely unexpectedly and almost imperceptibly, an even greater miracle occurs - it stops raining. But for seventeen-year-old Noe, who has found refuge in his grandparents' village, a place where the comedy of life gushes right next to its tragedies, miracles have no end.

“While you’re living it, you can sometimes believe that your life isn’t that great. It’s mundane and ordinary and could or should definitely be better in the alpha or beta way. The perspective that allows any meaning to emerge is missing, because while you’re living it, there’s only feeling and purpose and immediacy—the way life should be lived. We’re all constantly struggling, and while that means a more or less constant stream of failures, it’s probably not such a terrible thing when you consider that we’re still struggling.”

"A captivating book that wants you to enjoy it slowly"

Financial Times

"Halfway through the book I realized that if I didn't stop underlining passages, the entire book would end up underlined"

The Washington Post

"A big-hearted novel"

The New York Times