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High as the waters rise, a novel, Anja Kampmann ; translated from the German by Anne Posten

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High as the waters rise, a novel, Anja Kampmann ; translated from the German by Anne Posten

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

High as the waters rise

Responsibility statement

Anja Kampmann ; translated from the German by Anne Posten

Sub title

a novel

Summary

One night aboard an oil drilling platform in the Atlantic, Waclaw returns to his cabin to find that his bunkmate and companion, Mátyás, has gone missing. A search of the rig confirms his fear that Mátyás has fallen into the sea. Grief-stricken, he embarks on an epic emotional and physical journey that takes him to Morocco, to Budapest and Mátyás's hometown in Hungary, to Malta, Italy, and finally to the mining town of his childhood in Germany. Waclaw's encounters along the way with other lost and yearning souls - Mátyás's angry, grieving half-sister; lonely rig workers on shore leave; a truck driver who watches the world change from his driver's seat - bring us closer to his origins while also revealing the problems of a globalized economy dependent on waning natural resources.

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