Everything Under
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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- 69,00 kr
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- 69,00 kr
Publisher Description
'Weird and wild and wonderfully unsettling... Dive in for just a moment and you'll emerge gasping and haunted' Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere
It's been sixteen years since Gretel last saw her mother, half a lifetime to forget her childhood on the canals. But a phone call will soon reunite them, and bring those wild years flooding back: the secret language that Gretel and her mother invented; the strange boy, Marcus, living on the boat that final winter; the creature said to be underwater, swimming ever closer.
In the end there will be nothing for Gretel to do but to wade deeper into their past, where family secrets and aged prophesies will all come tragically alive again.
'As readable as it is dazzling, full of unsettling twists and dark revelations' Observer
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
“The places we are born come back” begins this wildly imaginative story that meanders between past and present. As troubled Gretel embarks on a quest to find her estranged (and eccentric) mother, we’re swept up in the otherworldly tale of her childhood aboard a houseboat. Daisy Johnson’s inventive use of language and time-hopping narrative blurs the lines between fact and fiction to create an absorbing sense of mystery. Her increasingly dark debut novel eventually emerges as a retelling of a Greek tragedy that left us reeling.
