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The Lamentations of Zeno
- A Novel
Engelsk Hardback
The Lamentations of Zeno
- A Novel
Engelsk Hardback

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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.<br><br><i>The Lamentations of Zeno</i> 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.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
176
ISBN-13:
9781784782191
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
178478219X
Udg. Dato:
3 maj 2016
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
217mm
Højde:
148mm
Forlag:
Verso Books
Oplagsdato:
3 maj 2016
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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