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'Ein exquisiter, minutiöser, kraftvoller Roman' David MitchellVor der Küste Mexikos werden zwei Männer in ihrem Fischerboot in einem Sturm auf die offene See getrieben. Wie schon in 'Das Lied des Propheten', geht es in diesem Roman von Booker-Prize Gewinner Paul Lynch um alles. Um Überlebenswillen, Einsamkeit und die menschliche Existenz im Angesicht der Katastrophe. Der Fischer Bolivar lebt ein einfaches, unbeschwertes Leben. Im Gegensatz zu seinen Kollegen beginnt er seinen Tag meist erst mittags, raucht viel und trinkt Bier bei Rosa, der Frau, in die er verliebt ist. Er will gerade zu seinem Fang aufbrechen, als er von den Dorfbewohnern vor einem aufkommenden Sturm gewarnt wird. Aber Bolivar fährt entgegen jeder Vernunft an diesem Tag zur See. Er nimmt Hector mit, einen jungen Fischer, der das zusätzliche Geld gut gebrauchen kann, das Bolivar ihm für das Wagnis bietet. Obwohl er Angst vor dem Sturm hat, lässt er sich auf den Job ein. Als sie der Sturm aufs offenen Meer treibt, blicken sie gemeinsam - und doch jeder für sich - dem Untergang ins Auge. 'Jenseits der See' zeichnet ein eindringliches Bild der menschlichen Psyche und geht der Frage nach, wie man es schafft, die Hoffnung in einer aussichtslosen Situation nicht zu verlieren.

'¿Das Lied des Propheten¿ ist große Literatur. Absolut Lesenswert.' Claudia Kuhland, Das Erste - titel, thesen, temperamente  An einem regennassen Abend in Dublin öffnet die Wissenschaftlerin und vierfache Mutter Eilish Stack ihre Haustür und steht zwei Beamten der neu gegründeten irischen Geheimpolizei gegenüber. Sie sind gekommen, um ihren Mann Larry, einen bekannten Gewerkschafter, zu verhören. Kurz nach dieser Begegnung verschwindet Larry, und sehr schnell beginnen die Dinge in Eilishs Welt aus dem Ruder zu laufen. Paul Lynchs meisterhafter Roman ist das Buch der Stunde - und ein Appell, die entstehenden autoritären Regime der Gegenwart zu bekämpfen. (lib)

When fishermen Bolivar and Hector set sail from their South American village, they soon find themselves cast adrift in the Pacific Ocean by a sudden storm. As the days pass and no rescue materialises, the two men must come to terms with each other, and with their environment, if they are to survive. Part gripping survival story, part fearless existential parable, Beyond the Sea is a meditation on what it means to be a man, a friend, a father and a sinner in our fallen world, a powerful and redemptive novel from a master of lyrical prose.

Prophet Song. Vpervye na russkom! Roman - laureat Bukerovskoj premii 2023 goda, kotoryj uzhe nazyvajut «irlandskim 1984» i «novym Rasskazom sluzhanki». Kak pisal v svoej rekomendacii Bukerovskij komitet, jeta «radikal'naja antiutopija... jarko zhivopisuet reshimost' materi zashhitit' svoju sem'ju vo vremena, kogda liberal'naja demokratija... neumolimo i pugajushhe skatyvaetsja k totalitarizmu». Odnazhdy vecherom mikrobiolog Ajlish Stjek, mat' chetveryh detej, otvechaet na stuk v dver'. Na poroge - dvoe operativnikov svezheobrazovannoj Gosudarstvennoj sluzhby nacional'noj bezopasnosti, kotorye hoteli by pogovorit' s muzhem Ajlish, aktivistom uchitel'skogo profsojuza. A posle demonstracii protesta ee muzh propadaet - i Ajlish okazyvaetsja v plenu logiki koshmara: obshhestvennye instituty rassypajutsja na glazah, pravitel'stvo prevratilo tihij prigorod v zonu boevyh dejstvij, i, chtoby spasti sem'ju, Ajlish vynuzhdena reshit'sja na nevozmozhnoe... «Roman-preduprezhdenie o tom, kak legko utratit' svobody, kotorye my schitaem samo soboj razumejushhimisja, odnako velichajshee dostizhenie avtora v tom, chto opisyvaemye neverojatnye sobytija vygljadjat absoljutno real'nymi» (Sunday Independent).

'¿Das Lied des Propheten¿ ist große Literatur. Absolut lesenswert.'¿Das Erste - titel, thesen, temperamente¿An einem regennassen Abend in Dublin öffnet die Wissenschaftlerin und vierfache Mutter Eilish Stack ihre Haustür und steht zwei Beamten der neu gegründeten irischen Geheimpolizei gegenüber. Sie sind gekommen, um ihren Mann Larry, einen bekannten Gewerkschafter, zu verhören. Kurz nach dieser Begegnung verschwindet Larry, und sehr schnell beginnen die Dinge in Eilishs Welt aus dem Ruder zu laufen. Paul Lynchs meisterhafter Roman ist das Buch der Stunde - und ein Appell, die entstehenden autoritären Regime der Gegenwart zu bekämpfen. 'Es hat nur einmal in einem Jahrhundert einen Franz Kafka gegeben; und in diesem gibt es nur einen Paul Lynch.'¿NZZ (lib)

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Irelands newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.How far will she go to save her family? And what or who is she willing to leave behind?Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mothers fight to hold her family together. (lib)

Aquatic life refers to animals that live in the water and also plants that grow in or on the water. Many scientists have made claims that life began in the sea, and some have said life began on the land. In any view, we know life is evident today in all parts of the earth. Earth is the only planet that supports life to date in the entire known galaxies and planets. Animals have been with us from since the beginning of the earth, and they will remain with us for a long time. The Jewish book of Genesis gives days and times of the creation of heaven and earth. In this creation story, God divided the waters on the earth into two categories; these are: ''seas or oceans'' and ''clouds or skies,'' he also made the dry land and called it earth, when God had done this water was already on the earth. In this story life started in the sea with God creating great whales and fish after their kind, before he created land creatures. Another thing God created after the sea creatures were birds of the air. To believe in life from the sea would be better to understand rather than from the point of evolution from on the land. However, it is still a great mystery in scientific circles of questions frequently being asked of 'how' and 'when' life began. The biblical story of creation is not much different from the scientific aspect of how this earth came about in truth. In fact, scientists used a major part of the Bible to investigate their research. The writer of Genesis clearly noted that life came forth abundantly from the oceans or seas. Life in the sea began in a rapid period of earth's history called ''The Cambrian Period.'' During this time there was a rapid growth of different types of aquatic life in the seas or the world's oceans. This period lasted about 40 million earth years; during this time many species of animals began to emerge in the oceans, some were common others were uncommon. Deep sea corals are some of the oldest sea creatures on the earth, stemming from over 4,000 years of earth's history and also jellyfish from a period of over 650 million years. Some animals from the sea that existed in the predate Earth period still exist today; others are extinct. Sea animals were abundant at the time of the dinosaurs. There were even dinosaurs that lived in the sea, but somehow they got extinct with the rest of dinosaurs on the land. Life in the seas is in a world by itself; there are many mysteries that surround this aquatic world of plants and animals dating from over 500 million years ago when the first animals and plants were developing in the earth oceans. The seas and oceans are one; the oceans ranging from the Atlantic, Antarctic, Arctic, Indian, and the Pacific Oceans are all one large body of water called seas. Water is 72 percent of the earth. Water is what suggests that life exist especially pure water. Water is made up of two elements; hydrogen and oxygen. Only the earth has watery oceans with oxygen as our solar system proves to date.