The Body by the Shore
Author | : Tabish Khair |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2022-09-18 |
ISBN-10 | : 9789356292901 |
ISBN-13 | : 9356292906 |
Rating | : 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Harris Malouf, a killer with an erased official past, is visited by someone who could not be alive. In Aarhus, police officer Jens Erik cannot forget the body of a black man recovered from the sea some years ago. On an abandoned oil rig in the North Sea, Michelle, a young Caribbean woman, realizes that the man she has followed to this job is not what he claims to be. Set in the post-pandemic world around 2030, but moving back in time to cover all of the 21st century, The Body by the Shore is a novel about reason and emotion, love and despair, greed and hope. When all the narrative strands come together, a world of great terror and beauty is revealed.