The Sea
- Auteur: John Banville (Ierland)
- Soort boek: Ierse roman uit 2005
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Picador
- Omvang: 272 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Nederlandse vertaling: De zee
- Winnaar Booker Prize 2005
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitstekend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
John Banville The Sea review en recensie
- “You can smell and feel and see his world with extraordinary clarity. It is a work of art, and I’ll bet it will still be read and admired in seventy-five years.” (Rick Gekoski, The Times)
- “A novel in which all of his remarkable gifts come together to produce a real work of art, disquieting, beautiful, intelligent, and in the end, surprisingly, offering consolation.” (Allan Massie, The Scotsman)
- “A brilliant, sensuous, discombobulating novel.” (Spectator)
Flaptekst van de roman uit 2005 van de Ierse schrijver John Banville
The Sea is John Banville’s remarkable, Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss.
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma.
The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately. What happened next would haunt him for the rest of his years, and shape everything that was to follow.
John Banville was born on 8 December 1945 in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945. He is the author of many highly acclaimed and prize-winning novels including The Sea, which won the 2005 Booker Prize. He has been awarded the Franz Kafka Prize and a literary award from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Dublin.