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Literary Fiction · MelancholicA widowed art historian returns to the seaside town where he spent a childhood summer
The Sea
2005200 pagesModerate readSlow pace
★ Booker Prize, 2005
A widower goes back to the sea of his childhood
Max Morden is an art historian who has lost his wife, and he returns to a seaside village in Ireland where he spent a summer as a boy. He remembers the Grace family, his first love and the tragedy that ended that summer. It won the 2005 Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Max Morden and the Grace family.
World
An Irish seaside village.
What makes it different
The past and present run together in one voice.
Feel
Lyrical and sad.
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Further reading
- The SeaWikipedia