Chloe Aridjis

Sea Monsters

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, seventeen-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with Tomâas, a boy she barely knows. He seems to represent everything her life is lacking--recklessness, impulse, independence. Tomâas may also help Luisa fulfill an unusual obsession: she wants to track down a traveling troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs. According to newspaper reports, the dwarfs recently escaped a Soviet circus touring Mexico. The imagined fates of these performers fill Luisa's surreal dreams as she settles in a beach community in Oaxaca. Surrounded by hippies, nudists, beachcombers, and eccentric storytellers, Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will "promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery." It is a quest more easily envisioned than accomplished. As she wanders the shoreline and visits the local bar, Luisa begins to disappear dangerously into the lives of strangers on Zipolite, the "Beach of the Dead.""--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 215mm x 143mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781936787869
• ISBN-10: 1936787865
• Artikelnr.: 52523956

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Chloe Aridjis

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The novel's brilliance lies in capturing so convincingly that state of adolescent restlessness... Aridjis's languid prose lets these images wash over the reader, unfurling in comma-rich sentences that beautifully render a state of inertia Francesca Carington Daily Telegraph