Sea monsters
Aridjis, Chloe
Sea monsters - London: Vintage, 2020. - 175p.; pbk; 21cm.
Includes author's introduction
Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award
'A mesmerizing, revelatory novel, smart and funny and laced with a strangeness... For my money, Chloe Aridjis is one of the most brilliant novelists working in English today' Garth Greenwell
One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with the reckless, impulsive Tomás, a boy she barely knows. Their quest: to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped a touring circus.
Together they head for Zipolite, the ‘Beach of the Dead’, a community peopled by hippies, nudists, beach combers and eccentric storytellers, and Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will ‘promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery’. But as Luisa wanders the shoreline, she begins to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/435678/sea-monsters-by-chloe-aridjis/9781784706739
9781784706739
Teenagers--Fiction
Mexico--History--1970-1988--Fiction
Dwarfs persons--Fiction
813.6 / ARI
Sea monsters - London: Vintage, 2020. - 175p.; pbk; 21cm.
Includes author's introduction
Winner of the 2020 PEN/Faulkner Award
'A mesmerizing, revelatory novel, smart and funny and laced with a strangeness... For my money, Chloe Aridjis is one of the most brilliant novelists working in English today' Garth Greenwell
One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with the reckless, impulsive Tomás, a boy she barely knows. Their quest: to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped a touring circus.
Together they head for Zipolite, the ‘Beach of the Dead’, a community peopled by hippies, nudists, beach combers and eccentric storytellers, and Luisa searches for someone, anyone, who will ‘promise, no matter what, to remain a mystery’. But as Luisa wanders the shoreline, she begins to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/435678/sea-monsters-by-chloe-aridjis/9781784706739
9781784706739
Teenagers--Fiction
Mexico--History--1970-1988--Fiction
Dwarfs persons--Fiction
813.6 / ARI
