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Coffee House Press
April 2013
On Sale: March 26, 2013
226 pages
ISBN: 1566893194
EAN: 9781566893190
Kindle: B00BHOSVB8
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Fiction Family Life
In a room with no windows on the coast of Africa, an
Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist
fighters. Posing as a water expert to report on al-Qaeda
activity in the area, he now faces extreme privation, mock
executions, and forced marches through the arid badlands of
Somalia. Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea,
Danielle Flinders, a biomathematician, half-French,
half-Australian, prepares to dive in a submersible to the
ocean floor. She is obsessed with the life that multiplies
in the darkness of the lowest strata of water. Both are drawn back to the previous Christmas, and to a
French hotel on the Atlantic coast, where a chance encounter
on the beach led to an intense and enduring romance. For
James, his mind escapes to utopias both imagined and
remembered. Danny is drawn back to beginnings: to mythical
and scientific origins, and to her own. It is to each other
and to the ocean that they most frequently return: magnetic
and otherworldly, a comfort and a threat.
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