Rain in Dublin is the first novel by the Irish-American screenwriter and actor Karl Geary. The Chinese edition, translated by Liu Zhou and Shi Mengyang, is published by CITIC Press in its Dafang series. The story is set in twentieth-century Dublin: sixteen-year-old Sonny grows up in a poor neighborhood, with a father addicted to gambling and a mother who vents her grievances about life on him. Caught after stealing bicycle parts, Sonny is suspended from school and has to follow his father to do masonry work in a wealthy neighborhood, where he meets Vera, a middle-aged woman living alone. Vera is rich and elegant, yet isolated and burdened with secrets, and Sonny is quickly drawn to her, almost beyond his control. In desperation he begins a forbidden relationship with Vera but can never enter her inner world; the reclusive Vera harbors deep secrets, and Sonny witnesses her attempt to end her life twice. In the end she still dies, and those secrets become secrets forever. The book is written almost entirely in the second person, with "you" plunging the reader directly into Sonny's inner monologue, so that damp, chilly Dublin and the boy's inescapable predicament mirror each other. The novel won the Costa First Novel Award and the Desmond Elliott Prize and was named a book of the year by The Irish Times and The Times.
Founded in 1988 and affiliated with China CITIC Group, CITIC Press focuses on business and economics, social sciences, literature and children's books, with common categories covering social sciences, finance, literature, Eastern philosophy and literary appreciation. Its library holds 91 titles, including Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens trilogy, Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Wu Xiaobo's Thirty Years of Strife: Chinese Enterprises 1978–2008, Nelly Sachs's The Weight of Butterflies: Selected Poems of Nelly Sachs, as well as New Interpretations of the Analects and Chiang Hsun's lectures on Dream of the Red Chamber. Its authors and translators include Lin Junhong, Ba Shusong, Chen Li and Chang Fen-ling. Overall, the press introduces influential works in finance and social sciences while balancing classic translation and local appreciation in literature and Eastern philosophy, combining academic depth with accessible reading.
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