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Author: J. M. Ledgard
ISBN : B00BHOSVB8
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"[T]he best novel I've read so far this year. . . . I started Submergence one afternoon, cut short a social event that evening to keep reading, stepped off a train at midnight with twenty pages left, and stood under a light on the platform to finish them. . . . strange, intelligent, gorgeously written . . . Submergence is a dark book, but in such an unusual sense: Ledgard turns out the lights, and everything, inside and out, begins to glow."--Kathryn Schulz, New York Magazine
"Every once in a while, a critic will be mesmerized by a book that stands out from--even wipes the floor with--all other books that have come his way of late. . . . Prose merges with poetry; shocks detonate like depth charges, and characters’ fates actually matter in Submergence, an astonishing novel that utterly immerses the reader."--Malcolm Forbes, Minneapolis Star Tribune
"An extraordinary fusion of science and lyricism. . . . [A] darkly gleaming novel about love, deserts, oceans, lust and terror."--Alan Cheuse, NPR's "All Things Considered"
"Ledgard has given, in Submergence, glimpses of very strange life indeed: the spy in a place so lawless that chaos is the only norm, the scientist in our planet’s least knowable region, lovers expert at self-containment. Out of this, acute understandings emerge."--New York Times Book Review
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.
J. M. Ledgard was born in the Shetland Islands. He has been a correspondent for The Economist since 1995, specializing in foreign political and war reporting. He currently works in Africa, traveling widely in the continent.
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- File Size: 357 KB
- Print Length: 226 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1566893194
- Publisher: Coffee House Press (April 1, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BHOSVB8
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,857 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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This novel simply leapt off the table in the bookstore where I picked it up. There was something so audacious about coupling the story of a British spy captured by jihadists in Somalia with that of a beautiful mathematician of mixed race studying the lowest depths of the ocean. And a recommendation on the cover from Teju Cole, author of the remarkable OPEN CITY. He is right, too: "A masterly evocation of the intricacy of life" is pretty precisely what this book aims to be. A polymath's playground, it will appeal to the many who love to connect art to science, philosophy to reality, renaissance literature to the modern world. Unfortunately, the one kind of connection that matters most to me in a novel, that between human beings, is where the author is weakest.
Ledgard's technique is to write in short sections of rather dry declarative prose, from one paragraph to several pages. Some of these introduce odd historical or scientific facts, apparently out of the blue, but all connecting in some way to the author's complex world view. Most, however, concern one or both of the protagonists, jumping around over the course of about a year; it is left to the reader to work out the real-time sequence. James More, a distant descendant of Sir Thomas More, is an ex-paratrooper now working for the Secret Intelligence Service; based in Kenya, he poses as a water engineer while tracking Al Quaeda in neighboring Somalia. Professor Danielle Flinders, oceanographer, biologist, and mathematician, is the daughter of an Australian father and French Caribbean mother. She is an academic high-flyer and sexual adventuress -- until she meets James at an exclusive hotel on the French coast and they fall in love.
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