What to read? Books about the sea
The sea is not just water. This is a call, memory, hope, an abyss. Each of us has our own « sea » – real or imaginary. In literature, it sounds differently: anxious, romantic, menacing or liberation. The Narva Central Library will introduce you to books in which the sea becomes a full -fledged hero.
Van Jianzyun « The island of peace »
Fifteen years ago, at night, during the strongest typhoon, a whole island of peace with all its inhabitants disappeared. Locals claim that there were not without a monster from ancient Chinese legends …. Of all the inhabitants of the island, only the young Shen Ko survived, who was visiting that night at the neighboring island of joy. So it has been considered so far. Until the man was saved at sea … And they turned out to be another resident of the island of peace, which disappeared fifteen years ago. Struck by this news, Shen takes a break in the final of the international chess tournament and goes to the places of his childhood. He has only three days to meet face to face with the ghosts of the past and, finally, find out what happened to his relatives. But as soon as Shen to sail to the island of joy, people will begin to die around one after another …
Morten Andreas Strexnes “Times of the Sea, or as we caught a combined shark with a takushenka inflatable boat”
“Times of the sea” is an amazing alloy of the psychological novel-travel and adventure prose with elements of the family saga. The story of the pursuit of the huge Greenland shark in the waters of Norway, echoing with the “moby wild” Melville and the “old man and the sea” Hemingway, amazes and attracts with its intonation, friendly and surprisingly respectful to the sea inhabitants, even if it is a huge and gloomy monster, like a shark. The story about the fishing of the monster is gracefully associated with the memoirs of the two main characters about the fate of their families, with the old legends about the ancient underwater monsters and with professional fishing councils.
Olga Lauren « Lost island. On the wild shores «
Once Bonnie Morgan receives a letter from his father, who was missing at sea several years ago. Together with his colleague Nicholas Parker, the girl set off on the coordicians indicated in the note and fall on the lost island. There, on unknown land, Bonnie and Nick have to face a number of dangerous and fatal tests, reveal all the secrets of the island and become closer to each other until someone who can separate them appears. How will this journey end? Will heroes be able to overcome all difficulties, find Bonnie’s father and find true love?
William Hoop Hodgson « Pirates-ghosts »
The ocean depths conceal many puzzles and deadly dangers. Powerful whirlpools, terrible shadows and fantastic creatures sometimes appear at the most unexpected moment. And now, a calm swimming is turning around by a real nightmare … The English writer William Hop Hodgson (1877-1918), from a young age associated with the sea, out of his own experience, has expressed what the water element is capable of. This collection includes his novel “Pirates-Graint” and stories on the sea theme. Hodgson’s works later had a great influence on the classics of the mystic and horror genre. “Few can compete with Hodgson,” wrote G.F. Lovecraft – in art as if there are nothing meaningless details or random hints of nameless and monstrous forces that live nearby … «
Nicholas Sparks « Message in a bottle »
It is not so difficult to fix a broken yacht. To glue fragments of a broken life is much more difficult … Who will help in this Garrett Blake, who has not wanted to come to terms with the death of a woman who was the meaning of his existence for many years? Again and again, he seals into bottles of desperate, full of love and longing for writing and throws them into the sea, not hoping to get an answer. But once his message falls into the hands of a successful journalist Teresa Osbourne …
Francoise Burden « Looking at the Sea »
More than anything, Mathieu loves his successful bookstore, where he spends days, and sometimes nights. He is more and more distant from Tess, which, in turn, loves him more than anything else in the world. The action takes place in the port city, in Normandy, where the salty air of freedom saturated all the streets. Tess expects a proposal from Mathieu, but, realizing that he is much more focused on himself, decides to leave. But the image of Mathieu does not let her go. To become free, Tess understands, first of all, she needs to free Mathieu.
Wilbur Smith « indomitable, like the sea »
Nicholas Berg, nicknamed the Golden Prince, lost a high position in the navigable corporation, condition, family. Now all this belongs to his sworn enemy. But Captain Berg left something that could not be taken away to anyone – courage, will to life, love of their work. And besides, a small towing company and debts in addition. In order to pay off all the bills, he takes up a complex and extremely risky enterprise-the salvation of passengers of a cruise vessel that has a disaster in ice far from the southwest of the Cape of Good Hope …
Tatyana KrivolapNarva Central Library
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