Not Forgetting the Whale - Couverture rigide

Ironmonger, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0297872036 ISBN 13 : 9780297872030

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015

Synopsis

When a young man washes up, naked, on the sands of St Piran in Cornwall, he is quickly rescued by the villagers. From the retired village doctor and the schoolteacher, to the beachcomber and the owner of the local bar, the priest's wife and the romantic novelist, they take this lost soul into their midst. But what the villagers don't know is that Joe Haak has fled the City of London fearing a worldwide collapse of civilisation, a collapse forecast by Cassie, a computer program he designed. But is the end of the world really nigh? Can Joe convince the village to seal itself off from the outside world? And what of the whale that lurks in the bay? Intimate, funny and deeply moving, Not Forgetting the Whale is the story of a man on a journey to find a place he can call home.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Ironmonger was born and grew up in East Africa. He has a doctorate in zoology, and was once an expert on freshwater leeches. He is the author of The Good Zoo Guide and the novels The Notable Brain of Maximilian Ponder (shortlisted for the 2012 Costa First Novel Prize and the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize), The Coincidence Authority and The Whale at the End of the World (an international bestseller). He has also been part of a world record team for speed reading Shakespeare, has driven across the Sahara in a £100 banger, and once met Jared Diamond in a forest in the middle of Sumatra.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0297872036
• ISBN 13: 9780297872030
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
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