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Doggerland (Hardcover, Edition)
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Doggerland (Hardcover, Edition)
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List price R330
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Discovery Miles 2 640
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'The Road meets Waiting for Godot: powerful, unforgettable, unique'
Melissa Harrison, author of At Hawthorn Time. Doggerland is a
superbly gripping debut novel about loneliness and hope, nature and
survival - set on an off-shore windfarm in the not-so-distant
future. 'His father's breath had been loud in the small room. It
had smelled smoky, or maybe more like dust. 'I'll get out,' he'd
said. 'I'll come back for you, ok?' The boy remembered that; had
always remembered it. And, for a time, he'd believed it too.' In
the North Sea, far from what remains of the coastline, a wind farm
stretches for thousands of acres. The Boy, who is no longer really
a boy, and the Old Man, whose age is unguessable, are charged with
its maintenance. They carry out their never-ending work as the
waves roll, dragging strange shoals of flotsam through the turbine
fields. Land is only a memory. So too is the Boy's father, who
worked on the turbines before him, and disappeared. The boy has
been sent by the Company to take his place, but the question of
where he went and why is one for which the Old Man will give no
answer. As the Old Man dredges the sea for lost things, the Boy
sifts for the truth of his missing father. Until one day, from the
limitless water, a plan for escape emerges... Doggerland is a
haunting and beautifully compelling story of loneliness and hope,
nature and survival.
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