Zeno Hintermeier is a scientist working as a travel guide on an
Antarctic cruise ship, encouraging the wealthy to marvel at the
least explored continent and to open their eyes to its rapid
degradation. It is a troubling turn in the life of an idealistic
glaciologist. Now in his early sixties, Zeno bewails the loss of
his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his marriage, and the
foundering of his increasingly irrelevant career. Troubled in
conscience and goaded by the smug complacency of the passengers in
his charge, he starts to plan a desperate gesture that will send a
wake-up call to an overheating world. The Lamentations of Zeno is
an extraordinary evocation of the fragile and majestic wonders to
be found at a far corner of the globe, written by a novelist who is
a renowned travel writer. Poignant and playful, the novel recalls
the experimentation of high-modernist fiction without compromising
a limpid sense of place or the pace of its narrative. It is a
portrait of a man in extremis, a haunting and at times irreverent
tale that approaches the greatest challenge of our age-perhaps of
our entire history as a species-from an impassioned human angle.
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